breaker response time
On 7/9/2017 8:28 PM, Lenny Jacobs wrote:
When a breaker is tripped, it's always the main breaker, not the
individual breaker. Shouldn't the individual breaker be tripped first?
This is troublesome because I then have to turn off all individual
breakers with the main breaker on and flip each breaker to see which
one causes the trouble.
That ain't supposed to happen . When an individual circuit overloads
that breaker and only that breaker is supposed to trip . Either you have
a defective main or the wrong amp rating . Or maybe you've got way too
big breakers on the individual circuits . Most mains are 100 or 200 amps
, 30 or 40 amp breakers for stoves/water heaters/dryers , 20 amp for
most outlet circuits and 15's for lighting .
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