Meltdown

[pridelion]

A buddy of mine tells me the following story.....that he knew of an electrician that went on a call of loss of power to a house. When he arrived,themain breaker was tripped. He reached over without any further checking, flipped the main back on and poof! It bursts into flames and begins to burn up the s.e. feeders as well. Does this sound plausible? What would cause this? How could I avoid the same type of blunder?
Thanks! John

 

[mdshunk]

Re: Meltdown

I was not aware that any materials that a main breaker was constructed out of would support a flame.

 

[bphgravity]

Re: Meltdown

Its not the materials, its the air. An arc is created from a fault. The air becomes plasma and expands at an incredible rate, ionizing even more air which begins to spontaneously combust.

 

[pierre]

Re: Meltdown

WWW.bussmann.com

This website has an incredible amount of FREE information that will help any electrician. One of the items there is about Arc Faults and Arc Blasts. You should visit this site and spend some time there with this info, as it will only make you better at what you do.

 

[charlie]

Re: Meltdown

Duplicate, see here.