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

["dpb" <dpbozarth@xxxxxxxx>]

spamTHIS...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <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'.

But unless that condition is true, it isn't "safe" anyway, so it's a
false comfort at best...