Main breaker bolt

[ivsenroute]

Not what you think, this one made me laugh.

 

[mdshunk]

nothing wrong with that. Makes it harder for someone to monkey around.

 

[Fulthrotl]

Not what you think, this one made me laugh.

that's how you determine bolted fault current, correct?

 

[SEO]

Breaker may have bad internal linkage and has to be held closed.:roll:

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

I thought that was in place to keep a "bolted fault" from occuring. :wink:

 

[iwire]

Breaker may have bad internal linkage and has to be held closed.:roll:

No matter what you do to it on the outside it will still trip on a fault or overload.

I see no problem at all, they could have used a padlock or a breaker lock on device.

 

[ivsenroute]

At first I was curious if they did that because they were having trouble with the main tripping and thought that would help which made me chuckle. I have since learned that this is a vacation home which made me realize they are keeping the renters from turning off the main breaker. The renters must turn off the well and water heater before they leave and I suppose they did not want to risk them turning off anything else, especially the main.

 

[SEO]

No matter what you do to it on the outside it will still trip on a fault or overload.

I see no problem at all, they could have used a padlock or a breaker lock on device.

I understand that.

 

[Fulthrotl]

At first I was curious if they did that because they were having trouble with the main tripping and thought that would help which made me chuckle. I have since learned that this is a vacation home which made me realize they are keeping the renters from turning off the main breaker. The renters must turn off the well and water heater before they leave and I suppose they did not want to risk them turning off anything else, especially the main.

friend of mine was absolutely paranoid about people using her cabin at
park city, utah, and then i found out why... some fool used it for the
night, and turned off the power to conserve energy when he left.

he didn't drain the plumbing using the bleed valve in the basement,
like he was told to. left it pressurized. turned off the main power,
so the heat trace lines on the plumbing were down. no electricity,
no heat, no thermostatically controlled circulating pump on the plumbing.

house froze solid, and then thawed. and then froze, and then thawed,
and froze again. no one was there for a month afterward. the living
room was a skating rink, 3" deep, frozen over. $150k in damage.
expanding ice breaks lots of stuff. walls, tile, doors.

not all that surprising when you consider how stupid the average person
is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than *that*.