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In my original post, I stated 20 amps, as I was (as I now know) incorrectly thinking that 2 ten amp fuses equaled 20 amps of fuse. Thanks all for helping me figure this out.
 
It's alive!!! Hey, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.
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glad to see you are up and running. for me the problem was a head scratcher because i assumed like other folks that you were using 20 amp fuses.
scott
 
Congratulations Kevin...a year from now this will be a funny memory, for some of us, it already is. :D
 
I may look back on the arc flash and tripping the main breaker in my shop, causing me to soil myself as funny one day.....one day.
 
There is nothing as sphincter challenging as cutting through a live 440VAC power cable with giant cable cutters.

Happened back in the 70's when I was working the air traffic control system at NAS Oceana. I was removing the old radar and installing a new digital system. I was sitting on the side of the cable trough that runs down the middle of the hall floor leading to the blue room. I was cutting the cable bundles into 20 foot sections for removal, using 104 pair cutters ( like big tree limb cutters). Everything was disconnected from the equipment on both ends. All I saw was a big blue ball of plasma. Then the lights went out ... literally and figuratively. I was not hurt beyond a little first degree burn form the flash, but when I rolled over backwards, I smacked my head on the floor and momentarily knocked myself out. The fact that the cutter handles are fiberglass was what saved me from a serious shock. Some idiot back in the early 1960's had bundled a power feed to the roof top AC units into the cable bundle for the radar signal feed to the blue room. He should have bundled it into the power bundle.
 
Anyone that's played around with electricity for any length of time has a story like that to tell. Mine also involved one leg of 460 3ph circuit. After a lunch that involved a few adult drinks I needed to just tighten a few lugs down in the distribution panel. No need to cut power I said, I'll be careful I said. With one hand on the wall to keep my balance, and one hand on the lengthy screw driver that I was using to tighten down the leg...don't get ahead of me here...Yep...I lost my balance my hand slipped off the screwdriver and right onto the lug. Fortunately for me, when my muscles involuntarily contracted it pushed me off the panel and on to my butt, on the floor, for a few dazed seconds. Lesson learned. If I'm going to have a 3 martini lunch, stick with the 120V circuits when returning. ;)
 
I guess I was blessed as I only got to witness a few. Junior guy gonna check high voltage on a small tv display with a multimeter and ordinary probes; fried the meter, blew him across the room and destroyed the display. Workers were cutting a hole in the concrete floor(big walk behind water cooled saw) so we could get at broken sanitary piping. They found a 200 amp 440v main that was not on the building blueprints. no one hurt, blew a 6" hole in the saw blade.
shipmate gonna help the galley crew with broken mixer, opened power panel and somehow had one hand on steel deck and found a power terminal with the other hand, killed instantly. guy working on high powered car stereo, hot and sweaty, touched the wrong spot, found dead later that day.
Electricity is no joke, it is like fire, a force to use that will bite you if you are careless. seen too much, i won't go near 'tricity after half a beer.
scott
 
I here ya Scott...at the time of my mishap I was young and dumb and full of ... vigor.
 
I actually pretty safe with electricity, since my brother is a lineman with the power company and preaches to me regularly. His scared straight story is from when he was a residential electrician and a guy grounded his elbows against the panel when touching a life line. Electricity flowed right accross his chest from one elbow the the other, stopping his heart and blowing off both elbows. He did not live. I always remember that story, and keep a tap tester in my pocket to triple check circuits.
 
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