• guyrocket@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Second this.

    I’ll fuck around a little with 120. I will NOT fuck around with 240. I had an electrician install the wiring for my induction range.

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      7 months ago

      There’s no difference between two 20A 120V circuit and one 40A 240V circuit. Two 12/2 vs one 10/3. Two breaker slots vs 1. Each conductor in the 240V circuit is the same volts as the hot of the 120V circuit. All fire risks and such are essentially identical.

      You should not do home repair beyond your comfort zone, especially electrical. That said, there’s nothing particularly spooky going on here.

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        7 months ago

        Wiring up 240V circuits with 60A fuses was literally something many British and Irish kids did before their teens before the 90s. You had to wire plugs for every new item you bought as they were sold separately. Plugs has 13A fuses, so current was more limited… Unless you wired it wrong…

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      7 months ago

      The 2 main basics that you need to be safe are these: Turn off the correct breaker, and doublecheck that it is turned off with a voltmeter before you touch anything.