Re: wire AWG and safe current draw

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/15/02 10:00:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


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> >
> > A Buddy of mine wanted to know if he could run a 240VAC 40A dual poled 
> > breaker on 10 AWG wire instead of 8 AWG. Anyone actually done this one 
> > before? Am I right in saying that this would cause a wall fire?
> >
> > Just checking.
> >
> > Tim.



Hi Tim,
       Could cause a fire, definitely. Would cause a fire, maybe. A code
violation, definitely.

Matt D.