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| bio | website | ericlippert.com |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | Apr 23 '12 at 20:14 | |
| stats | profile views | 153 |
Eric Lippert develops C# analyzers at Coverity. During his sixteen years at Microsoft he was a developer of the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers and a member of the C# language design committee. He is on Twitter at "@ericlippert" and writes a blog about programming language design and other fabulous adventures in coding at http://ericlippert.com.
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 2 |
answered | What did I do wrong??! Wiring error is tripping circuit breaker |
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Dec 2 |
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What did I do wrong??! Wiring error is tripping circuit breaker Also, obviously this situation is dangerous. The breaker is tripping before the house burns down due to overcurrent, but the breaker might not trip if your wiring fault happens to be dumping current to ground through a person or the wiring fault is causing a fire due to sparking. I would be keeping the circuit unpowered until you diagnose and fix the situation. |
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Dec 2 |
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What did I do wrong??! Wiring error is tripping circuit breaker Can you clarify a couple of things: (1) do all three switches (A, B1 and B2) control the same light? (2) Why did you replace switch A in the first place? (3) multi-way switches have a great many different possible configurations; can you describe the configuration of yours? For example, does power from the panel go to switch A, or one of the other switches? Does power to the light come from switch A or one of the other switches. And so on. |
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Nov 11 |
awarded | Guru |
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Oct 27 |
revised |
Why is this box constantly tripping? added 522 characters in body |
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Oct 27 |
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Why is this box constantly tripping? @hemp: You got it. |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 27 |
revised |
Why is this box constantly tripping? added 169 characters in body |
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Oct 27 |
answered | Why is this box constantly tripping? |
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Oct 27 |
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Why is this box constantly tripping? The other answer said that ground fault interruptors are to prevent fires, and you're saying that they are to prevent shorts. Neither is the case. Ground fault interruptors are to prevent ground faults, not short circuits. |
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Oct 27 |
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Why is this box constantly tripping? Hold on a moment here. The point of a ground fault breaker is not to prevent the barn from burning down. You should not rely upon a ground fault breaker to prevent an overcurrent situation. The point of a ground fault breaker is to prevent humans from being electrocuted. Your conclusion is correct: the guy needs to find the fault and fix it. But not to save the barn from burning down; to keep humans or animals from becoming the path to ground. |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
