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Default Electric Problem or overloading the circuit
In article , lid wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "Twayne"
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Mikepier typed:
First, make sure you do not have 20A breakers on 14 guage wire. If you
do, change them to 15A breakers now. Thats what could be causing your
conduit to get hot.
Hot conduit is NOT a sign of wrong amperage breakers! Hot conduit means
there is a LOT of current trying to find earth ground!

Actually, it's much more likely to mean hysterisis heating.

Huh? As in magnetic? What's being magnetized?

The conduit, of course -- pretty easy to happen when the hot wire of a circuit
is inside a metal conduit, and the neutral isn't, or vice versa.
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