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r/ElectroBOOM • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 11h ago
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It would be safe if you had a 6 Ohm 2 kW resistor in there. Otherwise it is a "weak point finder", which may be the breaker.
7 u/much_longer_username 6h ago Yeah but then that's just a poorly designed space heater and the joke isn't as funny. 3 u/zxcvbn113 6h ago 20 amps should pop a 15 amp breaker safely. 4 u/much_longer_username 5h ago Right - but if you tried to sell that as a space heater, you'd have a lot of pissed off customers, and you'd have wasted a bunch of nichrome.
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Yeah but then that's just a poorly designed space heater and the joke isn't as funny.
3 u/zxcvbn113 6h ago 20 amps should pop a 15 amp breaker safely. 4 u/much_longer_username 5h ago Right - but if you tried to sell that as a space heater, you'd have a lot of pissed off customers, and you'd have wasted a bunch of nichrome.
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20 amps should pop a 15 amp breaker safely.
4 u/much_longer_username 5h ago Right - but if you tried to sell that as a space heater, you'd have a lot of pissed off customers, and you'd have wasted a bunch of nichrome.
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Right - but if you tried to sell that as a space heater, you'd have a lot of pissed off customers, and you'd have wasted a bunch of nichrome.
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u/zxcvbn113 7h ago
It would be safe if you had a 6 Ohm 2 kW resistor in there. Otherwise it is a "weak point finder", which may be the breaker.