Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Snag wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Snag wrote:

Repeated tripouts on the thermal OL are BAD for compressors ! Not
to mention what might be happening in your breaker/fuse box . My
youngest had a bad cap in his condenser, repeated reset/trip cycles
fried the terminals/sockets/etc in his fuse box .He was faced with
a choice of power to the stove or power to the AC . Bad juju !!


Snag, some people will never learn to do things right. I've had
two electrical fires because people half assed repairs, or reused
old equipment that they should have thrown away. This property was
bought from the widow of a 'Precision fixedit' type that worked for
the schoolboard. He dragged home whatever he could from the scrap
pile at work to 'fix' things It's taken over 10 years to rip his
crap out and do proper repairs.

Actually this was original construction electrics . He has since
had a nice new breaker box installed . With capacity for expansion
IIRC .



Good. I've seen too many caused by careless work, or where the lugs
had never been checked after the initial install. It ticks me off
when someone installs a panel with just enough circuits, or even one
with a couple less than they should have.


I caught one panel just before it would have gone up in flames. It
was a 200A 208 three phase panel that was too hot to touch, because
the clamps that held the incoming wire were loose. The insulation
was burnt back to the edge of the 4" conduit, and four new conductors
had to be pulled in, all the lugs replaced and rechecked a few times
to take care of the aluminum wire's cold flow. It had to be done
between midnight & 4:00 AM, since it was the feed to a CATV headend.
We had about 500 calls that their cable was out, even at that time of
the night.

The one on the back of my house was replaced a couple of years ago .
Original construction also , and the bus bars/breaker tabs were aluninum and
fried . The new one has a LOT of unused tabs ...
--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !