#because before the external breaker reached the current strength needed for it to snap off — the wires would be going up in flames
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the electric wiring in houses usually consists of phase and the neutral wire, my guys, don't forget about neutral wire
#context: fixing faulty wiring after lights were out at our warehouse.#the electrician we hastily called didn't bother to check the neutral wires. he he went looking for the phase and. well. it worked!#and he saw that secondary breaker my grandpa did back in the day and went. nah. fuck this. gimme money#we didn't have time for this anyway so dad sent him back#and he didn't even look up onto that this weird line of wires that are halfway rotten or burnt or oxidized. one is certainly ripped in half#(huh wonder whose wire it was...)#i called my friend who's not a certified electrician but electrician nonetheless to go through the second breaker#because we also didn't think about the neutral wire nor saw it being broken off because no one knows what the fuck is happening in the pane#and i honestly expected it to go like. maybe we'll see if the breaker's broken or it isn't but that crosses out good half of the reasons#and so be it because in that case the wiring's gone off somewhere in the walls#and then he went through the *external* breaker panel and went. you know what. that little broken wire on neutral. where does it go#and what in THEORY would happen if we connected it#...the lights turned on.#it was. our wire.#and the secondary and internal breaker? one that got us all confused about its purpose and whether or not it controls the lights?#didn't have anything to do with the lights.#in fact its purpose is rather good it protects the external breaker and by extension the wiring in general#because before the external breaker reached the current strength needed for it to snap off — the wires would be going up in flames#so the smaller ones in secondary breaker are required for faster reaction so if anything goes wrong it snaps off inside and not outside#the problem is that entire construction of that secondary breaker is ABYSMAL. It is steady yes but it's confusing as fuck#I am slightly nervous about the fix we made there to make it work cuz to do it more... reliable#we need to disconnect the entire floor and take out the lower wire and clean this off and possibly change a chunk of it#because even if we connected it back and pressed under the terminator it's already old as fuck.#it's going to break off in a different place sooner or later. it was our luck it broke off where it was obvious and easily fixable.#BUT. but. at worst it's gonna snap off someone's breaker due to spike or sudden drop of electric consumption#and. like. it's a neutral wire. it shouldn't do anything at all. + in the bad case of shitty luck it's gonna be *our* breaker that snaps of
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