21 Feb
2007
21 Feb
'07
5:11 p.m.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:35, Tony Duell wrote:
Yeah, I was thinking about that too.. If you're drawing enough current to
blow a 100A breaker through a system power cord (18 - 14AWG here in the
states), you'd end up with a very melty power cable.
I think it's gotta be a ground-fault that's causing Witchy's problems.
Pat
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It's done
the same on 2 different breakers, one is a 100A one
running my whole house (only a fridge, Mac Mini and hi-fi physically
on) and the other is an 80A one at work with nothing else on it.
And the mains plug fuse doesn't blow? This does not sound like an
overcurrent fault to me. Is the 100A breaker an RCD type of thing?
(actually, it sounds like a 100A-rated RCD used as a main switch in
the consumer unit to me, those are _not_ 100A breakser and will not
trip on over-current, just on earth leakage).