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dpb

wrote:
wrote:
In article om,
says...

If everything is "to code", aside from the personal hazard to the one
doing the shorting, this practice should be completely safe.

Unless, while specified to code, the breaker panel is one that tolerates
currents grossly in excess of the nominal capacity of the breakers.

(Our house had an untrippable Zinsco panel when we bought it.)

--
is Joshua Putnam
http://www.phred.org/~josh/
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html

Well, breakers that don't break when they're supposed to is a fault in
itself!

Exactly the kind of occurrence that makes me say 'never do this',
because it requires a chain of wires/splices/devices that ALL have to
be perfect for this to be 'safe'.

But unless that condition is true, it isn't "safe" anyway, so it's a
false comfort at best...