Do you test your breakers?

[ray66v]

don't get me started with ark fault breakers. they are going to be the downfall of civilization as i know it.

ARG! fault breakers.
What about the cost of additional wire, because I am told you can't use Edison circuits with most of them?

 

[grsthegreat]

Good Point. I have thought of the absurdity myself. The fans appear to have thermal overloads. Most devices today have internal fuses. In the past they did not. My concern with the fans is that they run unsupervised. The bearings could go bad and I might not notice. All of the other equipment I can hear, see, and smell. Yes I am paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? I am still open to suggestions. The fact that a fire department saw two fires in a year scares me. I could just do the GFCI and go with 15 amp ones. The fans are the only thing on the breakers. I over wired this house when I built it.

The code changes all the time. Most code changes are driven by some issue. Have we found and solved all of these issues? Probably not. Anyway yours and others suggestions are appreciated.

if the fans are the only thing on those breakers, put smaller breakers on that circuit if your worried about them. Order up some 5 OR 10 AMP BREAKERS IF THERE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR STYLE PANELS. dang caps button. Ive ordered some 10 amp QO breakers before for a residential job.Not sure if they have 5 amp residential 120 volt, they do for commercial apps.

 

[Mace Canute]

........happens in cars a fair bit, I believe it was early camarys went through wheel bearings all the time and come to find out the engine ground strap would break and the bearing was the next easiest ground. Just a thought
Mark

That is quite impossible.

 

[BobRip]

if the fans are the only thing on those breakers, put smaller breakers on that circuit if your worried about them. Order up some 5 OR 10 AMP BREAKERS IF THERE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR STYLE PANELS. dang caps button. Ive ordered some 10 amp QO breakers before for a residential job.Not sure if they have 5 amp residential 120 volt, they do for commercial apps.

I could not find 5 amp breakers for my panel so I am using 5 amp fuses and a GFCI.

 

[Mace Canute]

Sections 1, 2 and 3 in this PDF file have some information about maintenance of low voltage molded case circuit breakers.

http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/fist/fist3_16/fist3-16.pdf