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Thread Number: 39547
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
I'm an idiot look at what I did! |
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| Post# 419522 2/4/2020 at 21:37 (1,532 days old) by 4501933ho (Canfield ohio) | ||
I was replacing the switch on my hoover 450 and when I plugged it in it Tripped the breaker and I found that I had put a wire cap across the the Cord and it was a dead short!
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Post# 419527 , Reply# 1 2/5/2020 at 00:52 (1,532 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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You made a circuit breaker-fuse tester!Its happened to everyone-I did it one time! | ||
| Post# 419552 , Reply# 3 2/5/2020 at 22:41 (1,531 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 419561 , Reply# 4 2/6/2020 at 04:44 (1,530 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
I did this too when wiring a fluorescent light. Someone had monkeyed with it and undid a bunch of wires, and when reattaching them I didn't know which of the wires coming from the switch and the ballast went to the line power. I took a guess. As soon as I flipped it on, boom, power went out and the breaker in the basement tripped. I forget what I did (this was 7 or 8 years ago when I was still learning) but I think all I did was make a looped circuit from the switch to the ballast and back to wall power and it was basically a dead short.
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