Overcurrent protection provided by something called "fuse".
Young people don't know what those are.

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article
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Art Harris wrote:
When we moved into our house (1982) there was a 240V line
in the
basement for a drier. The line connected to a metal box
with two 30A
fuses and a big on/off switch. But there were no circuit
breakers for
this line at the main breaker panel.

That's bad. That means there was no overcurrent protection
for those wires.