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Originally Posted by cavie
That is very much possible. See it all the time. Breakers trip on overload. Not from over heating. A loose connection will cause over heating but not overloading or shorting.
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Isn’t that why the new homes now have arc-fault breakers instead of just GFI? I understood that an arc-fault breaker would trip if the connection starts to overheat from being loose.
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