I am doing a minor remodeling job in my 50+ year old house. There was an electric heater in the basement that is not used anymore and I will use it's dedicated circuit for wiring. Now comes the problem. The heater had it's own fuse box wired from the main circuit breaker box. In that box is the normal load side and line side. There were two 30 amp fuses in it. One fuse connected the two hot lugs and one fuse connected the two neutral lugs. Why is there a fuse on the neutral side? If I replaced the two 30 amp fuses with 15 or 20 amp fuses, would that give me a usable circuit?
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18 years ago