tallguy
Senior Member
This is a situation I came across at my church...
We put on community dinners from time to time, and I wandered in one night recently to find a folding chair next to the main panel... of course this is only there because the panel violates the 6'7" rule (by about 18 inches).
So, I pop into the kitchen as one of the ladies heads out the door to reset the breaker, again. "What's going on?"... "Oh, it happens all the time"... "Well, it's telling you something here"... "It can't be helped. We can't put the electric warmer doohickey anywhere else and the coffee maker is on the other side of the wall." (we're talking one of those behemoth restaurant style ones)
Apparently they were going back and forth (a short distance, so this was not too terribly inconvenient) and resetting the durn CB every 2 or 3 minutes until I prevailed upon them to unplug the warmer since the dinner was almost over anyway.
Here's the question --- at what point (if any) does repetitive resetting of a CB and continued use under overload conditions become a hazard, either to the wire/devices or to the CB itself??
We put on community dinners from time to time, and I wandered in one night recently to find a folding chair next to the main panel... of course this is only there because the panel violates the 6'7" rule (by about 18 inches).
So, I pop into the kitchen as one of the ladies heads out the door to reset the breaker, again. "What's going on?"... "Oh, it happens all the time"... "Well, it's telling you something here"... "It can't be helped. We can't put the electric warmer doohickey anywhere else and the coffee maker is on the other side of the wall." (we're talking one of those behemoth restaurant style ones)
Apparently they were going back and forth (a short distance, so this was not too terribly inconvenient) and resetting the durn CB every 2 or 3 minutes until I prevailed upon them to unplug the warmer since the dinner was almost over anyway.
Here's the question --- at what point (if any) does repetitive resetting of a CB and continued use under overload conditions become a hazard, either to the wire/devices or to the CB itself??
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