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- From: jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: "balancing" a power panel
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.130953.2444@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 13:09:53 GMT
- References: <C041s5.HrE@magpie.nycenet.edu> <1992Dec31.145747.3746@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <CARL.92Dec31122943@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
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- >>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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- The breaker most probably is internally two breakers that are
- connected to one handle, so popping one takes off the other.
- In some designs, you can see the two handles connected
- together with a bar.
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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.
-
- I've had half my house go dark, intermittently.
- A connector from the pole to the house went bad.
-