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ChooChooMan74
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Nov 13, 2015

Good Read about Circuit Breakers (Debunking Myths)

My last camping trip for Halloween weekend, I brought 2 electric heaters with me. I plugged one into a regular wall outlet, and one into the outlet for the electric hot water heater (I would swap out...
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road-runner
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Nov 13, 2015
The breaker's thermal overload trip current is specified at 104 degrees F and is greater when the temperature is lower, which would be case when wanting to run a heater. The following document has current vs. temperature graphs on page 6, and the complete trip curves starting on page 19.

http://www.schneider-electric.com.mx/documents/local/qo.pdf

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