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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Dec31135534@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:55:34 GMT
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- In-reply-to: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov's message of 31 Dec 92 18:23:46 GMT
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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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- >You've never used Federal circuit breakers, have you?
- >--scott
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- Nope. It also may have to do with local electrical codes as to
- exactly how the mains must be configured...
-
- -Carl-
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