TURTLE wrote:

"Matt" wrote in message
ups.com...

Perhaps you are right Turtle.... but nothing ****es me off more than to
take the time to try to help someone, at their request, and then have
them come back and insult me for it.

Even if I'm completely off base with my answer, it just irks me to have
the OP slam me for trying to help. We all know the others here will do
a nice job of gutting anyone who gives a completely wrong answer....
and I can accept that, ask for forgiveness, and move on.... but not
from the OP.

In this case, the guy had a disconnect that's overheating. His
solution? Replace a fused disconenct with a non fused one. This does
nothing to address the core problem (which I believe you and others
have very well pinpointed - his disco is undersized). No, his brilliant
solution was that GE makes crappy disconnects, he heard it from someone
who knows somebody who knows an electrician, after all.

Maybe I was off base by getting my panties in a twist. If so, I
apologize to the OP and others. And as you mentioned what I admitted,
I'm not an electrician.

But it doesn't take an expert to know that when an electrical circuit
is overheating to the point where cartridge fuses are melting,
something is wrong somewhere, and the very last possibility to consider
is that someone mfrs a crappy product. This guy even went to the
trouble of replacing his "crappy" product with the same "crap", and
surprise! Got the same results. Yeah, it's gotta be a bad disconnect.
I'll replace it with a non fused one... that will fix it!

Had he gone ahead and done that, what do you think the outcome would
have been, assuming he replaced it with the same specs as the disco.
Fire? I think it's likely, especially in an attic.

Which is all I was trying to point out in the first place.
And now I'll jump off my soapbox.....



This is Turtle

Get a Grip This is UserNet !

TURTLE


We know that, but you'll never convice Matt. He seems so touchy I think
maybe he sleeps on sandpaper sheets or a bed of nails every night.

I should be the one ****ing and moaning about the distortions he makes
about my posts and the sarcastic things he says about me, all because I
told him he missed the central point in my OP and then I asked him to
explain why he thought replacing the fused disconnect with a non-fused
one was going to set fire to my house.

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to accept Matt's garbage graciously, the
phrase noblesse oblige comes to mind...

I'm gonna check the paper label inside that GE fused disconnect when I
get home tonight, I'm curious to know if I missed seeing something on it
about the maximum continuous current rating being lower than 60 amps.
If so you've sure tought me something - along the lines of "The big
print giveth and the fine print taketh away." G

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public
schools"