Pennies in the Fuse Box

I think the calculated load is to great for a penny. Maybe you need to try a nickel?

Try an Aluminum penny. Add a couple of pieces of conductive rice if necessary.

I'd head for your doctor fast.

From your descriptions and questions it sounds to me like your entire alimentary tract has somehow gotten reversed.

Jeff

Don't screw anything in the plug fuse sockets but proper sized fuses. The two pullouts probably have something written on them like: Range and Main, the one that says "main" when pulled should kill power to all four plug fuses below

no! .. it's not s*it

this new pack of 15a fuses are holding up good so far it's the new style with a time delay.. vs the old glass ones i burnt up last night

the two pullouts don't have any writing, but im sure you're right

this gives me confidence to pull the two pullouts... then remove the remaining threads from the broken fuse...

me and electricity don't get along

I've had 440 go through me one time...

it shuddered my whole body for about what felt like.. 4-6 seconds... my whole life flashed before my eyes...

my ring burnt my finger during that surge, my necklace burnt my neck... that sort of heat...

but since that day.. I stopped hearing voices

Because it is the weekend and you are out of school again.

He's a "pyro", building a weapon of mass destruction.

Oren

If you are stupid enough to use a penny instead of replacing the fuse....you are an idiot or a troll.

Fuses have a purpose...they are designed to blow before the wiring melts.

Bypass the fuse, you'll get melted wiring & a fire. It's that simple.

BEFORE you go messing with the broken fuse, connect a wire to a good ground like the shell of the main panel, pull the main and then MAKE certain its dead, preferably with a meter but if not put the grounded wire to the center of the fuse and look for sparks.

I had a fuse box that pulling main did NOT kill all the fuses:(

ended up pulling the meter to get the broken fuse out.

some will certinally say shorting to the fuse is wrong, but this PROVES it dead and is way better than getting shocked!

right now I have a meter that isnt working all the time:( with such a meter checking for power at the fuse could lead to a deadly wrong conclusion.

I have gotten wrapped so much over the years I dont usually get upset, but do TRY to avoid it!

One fine day I leaned on a steam radiator to pull a plug on a radio, So I could plug in the jammed copier.... I was there to fix it....

Next thing I knew I was on the floor across the room:(

Idiot customer noticed radio power plug was bad and wrapped masking tape around wires:(

By the time I touched it and couldnt see it buried behind stuff, the masking tape had dried out and mostly fallen off.

I took the radio masking tape and all to the principal and reported what happened and pointed out a student could of been killed! Then cut the power plug off the radio so no one else got hit.... while the principal watched...

Across my heat with that good ground it was a close thing.

I avoid touching any grounded things whenever possible.......

It a school age troll. Not even a very good one.

pfft! you're the same one with the jerri rigged fence?

roflmao

nice little story

I have the uncanny ability to find danger before it finds me

I can't tell how many times I have found simliar things like you tell about

one time I was working on a large older home, doing a small renovation

something told me to goto the basement... i went down the narrow stairs.. down down down...

I just sort of followed my intuition...

I just walked right up to a fuse box.. and I could hear it humming I knew this was not right

WHILE I HAD JUST WALKED UP AND WAS STANDING THERE A BLUE FLAME SHOT OUT of THE SIDE OF THE BOX

i opened the door to the panel... killed the main...

I could see where a breaker was melting down.. it was oozing when i cut it off

was that a co-inky dink?

I don't think so. I think some people have a 7th sense..

danger rangers!

lol

and for the record?

YES if that was all I had and wanted to say.. make me an espresso?

YES a penny it is..

how the bleep would I melt a wire running an espresso maker on a fused penny rig?

exactly how many amps does it take to make hot water

all I wanted was coffee and email

I PLUGGED THE FUSE IN WITH THE PENNY STUCK TO IT I used lithium thermal grease to make it stick long enough to screw it in. lmao

BUT THE DAng THANG DIDN'T WORK NO WAY

so I re-arranged my panel today...

now my ac and pc is on a 40 amp fuse!

BURN BABY BURN!

THE ROOF THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIRE

I can't figure why it did not work I should have been able to make it work

what it it was zero degree weather out, and the roads were covered in ice suppose that fuse ran my only heater...

people need to learn how things work, so they can make things work when things dont work like their supposed to

what would mcguyver do?

"yeeha" wrote in news:1156606728.821790.164600@

Of course you are just jerking around about the penny (I hope, or you have "issues"). But my grandfather used to do this in boxes with glass fuses and cloth covered wire. We were lil tykes but me and bro recall laughing our asses off when he took a jolt and flew back a bit.

Poor gramps. Just tryin to spend a penny to save a nickel.

yes of course I am

IM NOT JERKING WAS I SUPPOSED TO GET SHOCKED?

OMG!

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top quality entertainment

nothing like a few wraps to straighten a fella out

since were on this fuse thing...

many years ago I was at battleship cove with my brother and some friends, including my old electronics instructor:(

anyhow wqe all walked in this compartment and I noticed a old fuse box with its fuse door removed...

fuse out I figured it MUST be safe, they wouldnt leave such a hazard exposed, so I did what I always wanted to do and touched the base contact:(

Dumb move it was LIVE:( 440 Volts!

I flew out the door bacxkwards, my friends howled in laughter!

About this time the maintence guy walked in and asked whats up:)

He had removed the fuse to do some work in another compartment:( Fuse door cover permanetely missing:(

He said be careful doint touch stuff you can get killed on this ship!

To this day those who were there talk about my poor move:(

How? You are so smart you should be able to figure that out. It is simple. It is not the load you think you are pulling that is blowing the fuse. You have a short that is pulling way more than your espresso machine somewhere in that circuit or the machine itself is shorted. Not to worry tho, the penny should fix it, after all when the house burns down, re-wiring is simple.

Harry K