Re: Why deliberately shorting equipment to blow breakers might be a bad idea . . .

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<j...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <1168609848.061852.47100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> spamTHISbrp@xxxxxxxxx says...
>
> > If everything is "to code", aside from the personal hazard to the one
> > doing the shorting, this practice should be completely safe.
>
> Unless, while specified to code, the breaker panel is one that tolerates
> currents grossly in excess of the nominal capacity of the breakers.
>
> (Our house had an untrippable Zinsco panel when we bought it.)
>
> --
> josh@xxxxxxxxx is Joshua Putnam
> <http://www.phred.org/~josh/>
> Braze your own bicycle frames.  See
> <http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html>

Well, breakers that don't break when they're supposed to is a fault in
itself!

Exactly the kind of occurrence that makes me say 'never do this',
because it requires a chain of wires/splices/devices that ALL have to
be perfect for this to be 'safe'.

Dave