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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Dec31122943@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:29:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.175625.17689@phx.mcd.mot.com> <C041s5.HrE@magpie.nycenet.edu>
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- Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
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- In-reply-to: dwb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com's message of 31 Dec 92 14:57:47 GMT
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- >I can understand the balancing part, in fact I'm going to take a look to
- >see if I require some modifications myself, BUT how can you bring half
- >your house into darkness? I only have 1 main breaker at the top of the box.
- >Do you mean that the unbalanced side will trip all breakers on that side?
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- Most of these "Main Breakers" have both side tied together (with a
- little bar going across both breakers) so if one "half" trips, they
- both trip. I've never seen "half" of a house going out.
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- -Carl-
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