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- From: manes@magpie.nycenet.edu (Steve Manes)
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Organization: Manes and Associates, NYC
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:17:32 GMT
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- david.boyle (dwb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com) wrote:
- : 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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- It depends. If you have cartridge fuses on the main (increasingly rare
- although I have them in my loft, which also has a breaker box) you'll
- lose everything plugged into that leg. If you're running a breaker on
- the main it will trip both legs.
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- Stephen Manes manes@magpie.nycenet.edu
- Manes and Associates/Commontech-NoHo New York, NY, USA =o&>o
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