How Not To
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Why
we look inside electrical panels #3 |
The
15-amp breaker protecting the red wire should have tripped.
The amount of current sufficient to melt the wire insulation
would have normally caused the breaker to disconnect
unless the heat was caused by a loose connection, forcing
the current to jump across a gap (known as arcing).
The breaker also may have malfunctioned. |
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