{"id":2991,"date":"2019-05-03T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2024-11-24T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:47:18","slug":"dont-look-right-triple-tapped-mains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/dont-look-right-triple-tapped-mains\/","title":{"rendered":"That Don&#8217;t Look Right &#8211; Triple Tapped Mains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2992\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2992\" src=\"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/101_1652-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">triple tapped mains\/undersized branch circuits<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Found this distribution panel in a garage today.<br \/>\nif you look closely you can see that the main wire on the right side had 3 wires terminating under one lug.\u00a0 One wire is a 12 gauge wire, connected to 50 amps of current.<\/p>\n<p>If something were to go wrong that wire would melt and likely start a fire.\u00a0 You never know what you will find when you open an electrical panel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2993\" src=\"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1310\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture-1024x696.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a wire is too small for a breaker?\u00a0 It is kind of fun to watch!<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t do this at home..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zinsco Breaker Test (Fire)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uMV1jmDn3o4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this distribution panel in a garage today. if you look closely you can see that the main wire on the right side had 3 wires terminating under one lug.\u00a0 One wire is a 12 gauge wire, connected to 50 amps of current. If something were to go wrong that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}