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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Dish washers available that run on 120Volts????
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.003602.26877@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <7214@atlas.cs.nps.navy.mil>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:36:02 GMT
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- erickson@atlas.cs.nps.navy.mil (David Erickson) writes:
-
- : > - I suspect that the first fuse had nothing whatsoever to do with
- : > the dishwasher.
- : > - if it did, you're fuse box is in gross violation of the electrical
- : > code (being able to disconnect one side of 220V without getting the
- : > other). These rules have been around at least 20 years....
- :
- : Come on, now, Chris. Most houses built since the mid-fifties (at least)
- : have had circuit breakers, not fuses. Houses with fuses have electrical
- : systems that are at least 40 years old, perhaps much older. Therefore,
- : your conclusion is faulty, since the electrical code almost invariably
- : grandfathers in installations that were correct at the time they were
- : made. The only way the fuse box would be in gross violation of the
- : code would be if it had been so at the time it was installed.
-
- Nope. Additions to the panel would have to meet current code. Dishwashers
- are not that old. If my reading of the code is correct, to install a
- 220v dishwasher onto a system that uses fuses, a person would have to use
- a 220v fuse, or install a subpanel with a 220v breaker.
-
- Bill
-