I'm so stupid... Was: Head Cleaners

From: Davison, Lee <Lee.Davison_at_merlincommunications.com>
Date: Sat Jul 3 12:06:24 2004

> If I had to do such a "deliberate trip" today, I'd probably do
> something like plug in an iron and a hair dryer - high-draw devices
> that together exceed the breaker's trip point, but not as drastically
> so as a dead short.

The trouble with that is most non-electronic breakers need 100%
overcurrent to trip in <15 seconds, so it would take five 1500W
hair dryers to trip a 15A circuit.

This makes testing 100A three phase breakers interesting.

Lee.






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