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I've done alot of framing but that doesn't make me a furniture maker, if you're comfortable with that outdated panel more power to you, hey it's lasted this long what could possibly go wrong?
bogo the point for the main breaker as a safety issue, that if the smaller breakers in the panel do not trip the main will trip, when the guy installed my heat-pump, he had something messed up when he turned on the 40 amp breaker in the square D QO panel it tripped that breaker the main in the square d panel, and the main breaker in the GE main panel, but it did not trip the 100 amp GE breaker feeding my square D sup panel.
Yes I realize that, but there may be other more important repairs that need to be made to the house now.
It relates to time delay of the breakers. It could easily have been a very high amperage spike as in a few hundred plus amps. The 100A didn't trip because it had a bit longer time delay than the other breakers had. They cut the circuit before it could react.How would more than one breaker trip if they're all in series? Once the first breaker trips, the rest are getting no current. That sounds seriously messed up.
How would more than one breaker trip if they're all in series? Once the first breaker trips, the rest are getting no current. That sounds seriously messed up.
no actually it is not the fault current hit at the max at the same time, instantaneous trip, it happens all the time. i have seen it a million times .
If you had training and experience building furniture, that would make you a furniture maker. I worked as an industrial electrician in the early 80's, when s*** like this was state-of-the-art. We built and wired stud walls with breaker panels for labs and offices, but it wasn't residential and my experience is way out of date. But it's certainly adequate to trouble-shoot this job.
My daughter is married, she and her husband will have to decide on the electrical panel. If they don't get a *real* electrician in to look at the issues noted by the inspector and me, I'll offer more advice, then keep my mouth shut. That's how parenting has to be.
and yet you still come on here and look for advice on basic wiring issues and how to run romex next to a chimney....don't get all quippy when you get opinions you don't like or agree with and then chastise Mud regulars for piling on when you post inane questions.
It relates to time delay of the breakers. It could easily have been a very high amperage spike as in a few hundred plus amps. The 100A didn't trip because it had a bit longer time delay than the other breakers had. They cut the circuit before it could react.
Scottm, there is a forum here for home improvement questions, you'd be better off posting there. Post in Chat, you get what you get. I know of at least one electrician on the forum who doesn't even visit chat that I'm aware of, but gives good advice in the home improvement section. Yeah, you'll get more traffic here, but not the kind you want.
topgun loves the drama and toys4us is on the clock...
Not a hell of a lot of chimneys surrounded by stud walls in factories, but it's very common in residential. So any residential electrician would probably know the answer, and everyone else would probably have no idea and no reason to judge the question inane. But still they pile on, because that's what they come here to do, don't you? Or did you know the answer from all your wiring experience and were just being coy with me? How sweet.