[Spridgets] Fuse box breaker question

[Jethro]

On 8/15/07, Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> You can uprate the breaker often times and have no ill effect.  Often a much heavier guage of wire was used in the first place.  Analyze the wire ga - OK throw the breaker first.

And _often_ you'll land on an empty cylinder when playing russian roulette.

> "too small wire = too much heat = fire" - Is your garage wired with 22 ga. wire? ;^)).

Unless you wired it yourself you'll never know what it's wired with
unless you LOOK.

Why take a chance when it's so easy to just check the wire size before
uprating the breaker?


It's also possible Linda if the breaker is older and has been tripped
numerous times before that it is getting weak and simply needs
replaced with a same sized breaker.