Joe Miranda
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2004
- Location
- Elyria Ohio
I run a 15HP RPC which is connected to a 60Amp breaker. I can run it all day and the motor barely gets warm and the 60 Amp is never warmer than room temperature. Yesterday I had the RPC running, my CNC lathe running, my 5hp air compressor running nearly constantly, and a window air conditioner running and it tripped the 100Amp main. I shut everything off and when I went to turn the breaker back on it was very warm to the touch. So I figured I just had too much stuff running at once. I left the window air conditioner off, shut off the air compressor and finished my turning project.
This morning I started everything up - except the window air conditioner and everyting has been running for about two hours but I went over and touched the 100Amp main and it is warm to the touch again. I don't know if it has always been warm when I am running everything or not. Could the trip yesterday have weakened the breaker and now I need to replace it? The circuit breaker is probably about 15 years old and I have been running RPC's in here all that time. The thing that perplexes me is that the 60Amp that the RPC is connected to is not even warm and it seems like that one should be the one that would give me trouble if any. Maybe I am just being paranoid now. Any ideas?
Joe
This morning I started everything up - except the window air conditioner and everyting has been running for about two hours but I went over and touched the 100Amp main and it is warm to the touch again. I don't know if it has always been warm when I am running everything or not. Could the trip yesterday have weakened the breaker and now I need to replace it? The circuit breaker is probably about 15 years old and I have been running RPC's in here all that time. The thing that perplexes me is that the 60Amp that the RPC is connected to is not even warm and it seems like that one should be the one that would give me trouble if any. Maybe I am just being paranoid now. Any ideas?
Joe