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

["Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61-&spamblock*-@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That, or the now famous FPE, Federal Pacific Electric. Noted for
not tripping.

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<josh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.)
>