My question is if you’ve got a lighting circuit and you ad addition loads to the circuit will this always trip the breaker if you add too much load on a circuit?
Agreed - there is a small "gap" in overload protection - for small overloads of long duration. The regs require us to design in a way to avoid that, but if it is allowed to happen and there's not much margin between cable's rating and the protective device's rating then long term the cable can suffer.
Agreed - there is a small "gap" in overload protection - for small overloads of long duration. The regs require us to design in a way to avoid that, but if it is allowed to happen and there's not much margin between cable's rating and the protective device's rating then long term the cable can suffer.
