Recent content by L8CS

It wasn't my intent to start a flame war, so I will speak my piece and move on as some of you have suggested. When I made my 1st post to this forum, I wasn't asking for help in choosing the correct wire size for my application. I simply asked " I know a loose connection will arc but will a...

Apparently the context of my original post has been lost in translation. It wasn't about whether I should have used a larger wire or not, it was about if a loose connection at the breaker could have arced and caused the copper to overheat thus melting the insulation just below the breaker...

No it's aluminum. I used both tinned and nickel plated copper in electronics. It was thin, stranded aluminum which cuts and bends easily. The oven is made by Bosch in Germany.

I replaced the 6' section between the oven junction box and the Subpanel with 10-3 with a 30 amp double. One single oven is only drawing 13.6 amps on one side and 12.7 on the other. Both ovens draw 28.6 on one side and 27.2 on the other. The oven cable itself is only 10-3 braided aluminum. I...

The original run was 15' to the Subpanel. The oven never flipped a breaker probably because it never operated at full load. The new run is 6' to the Subpanel so why would it trip the breaker now? I think the short runs allowed for less of a voltage drop and therefore the wire never overheated...

Thanks for the help. In my defense, I originally consulted the 37th edition of Wiring a Simplified written by H.P. Richter and based on the 1993 NEC. It stated that a #12 one way distance with a 2% drop at 240V was permissible for 30 amps up to 48' and at 40 amps up to 36'. What I missed was...

Hi everyone. I have an existing Square D Homeline Subpanel in my garage that I run my Bosch 220V double oven from. I've had the oven since 2006 and ran it from a 15' length of 12-3 to the Garage Subpanel which is supplied by a 65' run of 6-3 from the Main Breaker. I've recently relocated the...