I just increased it to a 25A breaker,

Which the circuit's wiring will still support, right?

"Bill Kearney" wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote in
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I just increased it to a 25A breaker,

Which the circuit's wiring will still support, right?


You mean the #14 it's wired with may be too small?

Why is it, in a boat or car, it's ok to fuse or breaker #16 wire at 30A on
a 12V DC circuit, but not on the AC circuit? That has never ceased to
amaze me.... They melt the same.


Larry
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Larry wrote:
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You mean the #14 it's wired with may be too small?

Why is it, in a boat or car, it's ok to fuse or breaker #16 wire at 30A on
a 12V DC circuit, but not on the AC circuit? That has never ceased to
amaze me.... They melt the same.

Larry

The electrons in an AC circuit are like a Chinese or Italian fire drill
compared the electrons in a DC circuit. They keep rushing back and
forth from one end to the other and generating a lot of extra heat.

DC circuits are like German fire drills. All the electrons are moving
in an orderly flow from one end to other so you can have about two or
three times as many participants.

Yep, that's it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
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The electrons in an AC circuit are like a Chinese or Italian fire drill
compared the electrons in a DC circuit. They keep rushing back and
forth from one end to the other and generating a lot of extra heat.

DC circuits are like German fire drills. All the electrons are moving
in an orderly flow from one end to other so you can have about two or
three times as many participants.

Yep, that's it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

And your switches work by pressing hard on the wire until no electron can
pass anymore, right?

Meindert

Meindert Sprang wrote:
"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
...
The electrons in an AC circuit are like a Chinese or Italian fire drill
compared the electrons in a DC circuit. They keep rushing back and
forth from one end to the other and generating a lot of extra heat.

DC circuits are like German fire drills. All the electrons are moving
in an orderly flow from one end to other so you can have about two or
three times as many participants.

Yep, that's it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

And your switches work by pressing hard on the wire until no electron can
pass anymore, right?

Meindert

Right! Hey, I need some technical help while you're here. I
accidentally let the smoke out of some of my wiring, how can I put that
back? :)

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)

"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
...
Right! Hey, I need some technical help while you're here. I
accidentally let the smoke out of some of my wiring, how can I put that
back? :)

Unscrew the other end and suck on it hard. Or maybe reversing the polarity
might help. I hope it wasn't AC?

Meindert

On Mar 7, 11:34 pm, "Bill Kearney" wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote:
I just increased it to a 25A breaker,

Which the circuit's wiring will still support, right?

It 10 AWG wire. The 20A circuit breaker is a new breaker and I
suspect that it's defective. I'm going to return it.

-- Geoff

"GeoffSchultz" wrote in
ps.com:

It 10 AWG wire. The 20A circuit breaker is a new breaker and I
suspect that it's defective. I'm going to return it.

-- Geoff




Bored to tears on a slow day, I pulled through the junk box at Waste
Marine, Charleston, this afternoon. In the junk, I found TWO 25A circuit
breakers that plug into a 3AG clip. THEY WERE 48 CENTS EACH, in the
original bubble pack! Best deal I ever got at Waste Marine....

Does anyone have an HP Ipaq PDA? On the bargain shelf by the register,
there was a brand new Maptech software package bundled with a GPS
receiver that you plug an Ipaq PDA (several models) into to make a chart
plotter/navigator out of the PDA. It was marked down from $349 to $30!

Helluva deal for someone with an Ipaq.....(c;

Larry
--
How much price inflation is caused by illegal
aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating
shortages for the natives? I heard 40%!

It looks like everyone posting here is pretty knowledgeable... And,
remember the breaker is there to protect the wire from overheating, it
is not intended to protect the electronic device on the end of the
wire - and it won't...
For those reading who may want a bit more information go to ...

http://tinyurl.com/3bgh7e

It is not just the voltage and current but also the length of the wire
run...

denny
MV Levitation