• Anon (unregistered) in reply to James Schend

    I've been reading TDWTF for about a year now and have never actually posted. However, your post has forced me to do so... Are you really serious about "just soldering a wire in the fuse box anyway" and then putting the breaker in parrallel with the soldered-in wire? If so, you'd better hope nothing goes wrong. If you did this, even if your breaker somehow managed to actually trip (unlikely because there would be next to no current flowing through it) your wire would still carry the current and the circuit would only be isolated after the wire burns out or the entire house catches fire and burns through the incoming power cables!!

    This principle is also the same if you have a 20 amp breaker in parralel with a 30 amp fuse wire. The current that would need to flow through that concoction would be something like 25 amps before it goes.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to James Schend
    Anonymous:

    >At least it wasn't an old fusebox. Does any place use fuses anymore?

     My 1927 house still has a couple on one of the kitchen circuits. I'm not sure if you can still buy fuses for it (although the house came with 2 spares), so I just wired the 30-amp fuses behind a 20-amp breaker... so (in theory), the breaker will cut the circuit off before the fuse blows and I won't ever need to look for a new one.

     Of course, I could just solder a wire in the fuse box anyway since (again in theory) the breaker would prevent anything dangerous from happening. But I'm not an expert, so I'll play it safe.

     I also have live cloth-insulated wires in the basement, and asbestos all over the place. Probably some lead paint, too, but it's a couple of paint-layers deep by now.

     

    Sorry, the previous post by Anon was supposed to be quoting this...

     Here it is again...

    I've been reading TDWTF for about a year now and have never actually posted. However, your post has forced me to do so... Are you really serious about "just soldering a wire in the fuse box anyway" and then putting the breaker in parrallel with the soldered-in wire? If so, you'd better hope nothing goes wrong. If you did this, even if your breaker somehow managed to actually trip (unlikely because there would be next to no current flowing through it) your wire would still carry the current and the circuit would only be isolated after the wire burns out or the entire house catches fire and burns through the incoming power cables!!

    This principle is also the same if you have a 20 amp breaker in parralel with a 30 amp fuse wire. The current that would need to flow through that concoction would be something like 25 amps before it goes.

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  • Name (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    That's OK, everyone messes up on the first post.

     

  • Name (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Sorry, I forgot the quote:

    That's OK, everyone messes up on the first post.

     (Although, home improvement and high voltage are no laughing matter)

    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    >At least it wasn't an old fusebox. Does any place use fuses anymore?

     My 1927 house still has a couple on one of the kitchen circuits. I'm not sure if you can still buy fuses for it (although the house came with 2 spares), so I just wired the 30-amp fuses behind a 20-amp breaker... so (in theory), the breaker will cut the circuit off before the fuse blows and I won't ever need to look for a new one.

     Of course, I could just solder a wire in the fuse box anyway since (again in theory) the breaker would prevent anything dangerous from happening. But I'm not an expert, so I'll play it safe.

     I also have live cloth-insulated wires in the basement, and asbestos all over the place. Probably some lead paint, too, but it's a couple of paint-layers deep by now.

     

    Sorry, the previous post by Anon was supposed to be quoting this...

     Here it is again...

    I've been reading TDWTF for about a year now and have never actually posted. However, your post has forced me to do so... Are you really serious about "just soldering a wire in the fuse box anyway" and then putting the breaker in parrallel with the soldered-in wire? If so, you'd better hope nothing goes wrong. If you did this, even if your breaker somehow managed to actually trip (unlikely because there would be next to no current flowing through it) your wire would still carry the current and the circuit would only be isolated after the wire burns out or the entire house catches fire and burns through the incoming power cables!!

    This principle is also the same if you have a 20 amp breaker in parralel with a 30 amp fuse wire. The current that would need to flow through that concoction would be something like 25 amps before it goes.

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  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Olddog

    Anonymous:
    Funny... how the reflection on the wall ( in the picture ) doesn't match up with objects in the foreground. I smell PhotoShop.

     Sniff away, it looks like the reflection matches up remarkably well to me.

     
    Notice that the middle two microwaves have open doors (well ajar), then think about how that would affect the reflections from the doors. (easiest way to spot that the doors are open is looking for which microwaves you can't see the controls on.
     

  • MrBester (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anonymous:

    I've been reading TDWTF for about a year now and have never actually posted. However, your post has forced me to do so... Are you really serious about "just soldering a wire in the fuse box anyway" and then putting the breaker in parrallel with the soldered-in wire? If so, you'd better hope nothing goes wrong. If you did this, even if your breaker somehow managed to actually trip (unlikely because there would be next to no current flowing through it) your wire would still carry the current and the circuit would only be isolated after the wire burns out or the entire house catches fire and burns through the incoming power cables!!

    This principle is also the same if you have a 20 amp breaker in parralel with a 30 amp fuse wire. The current that would need to flow through that concoction would be something like 25 amps before it goes.

    Wiring a breaker in parallel would be a whole new variety of WTF. However,  Anonymous said (s)he'd put the 30A fuse behind the 20A breaker, which seems a bit on the serial side to me.

     captcha: random, like the ramblings of this thread
     

  • paulc (unregistered) in reply to Kibi
    Anonymous:
    When the Polytechnics in England became universities, Newcastle Poly changed it's name to City University of Newcastle upon Tyne. They followed the entire process through and went as far as getting new letterheads before someone figured it out.


    old hat... UMIST feminists wanted to de sex the university's name so that Manchester became Personchester... it was not until someone pointed out to them what the new initials would be for the letterheads etc. that they came to their senses...

    UMIST would become UPIST
  • nyelvmark (unregistered)

    "open the breaker"? You're software guys, right?

  • GeraldDew (unregistered)

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