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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the case with virtually every breaker box.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Why are so many mislabeled though? It's not like the loads are being changed every day. I had two breakers labeled "dishwasher" and neither of them were the dishwasher!

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had two breakers labeled “dishwasher”

Electrical work is one of those things that's not difficult to do as long as you don't mind it being some level of wrong but relatively hard to do 100% to code right without training. With most of the wrong ways, the project still works, but it's dangerous and/or hard to maintain. Professional work is expensive, so you end up with a LOT of handyman work that's poorly labeled, poorly run, poorly designed or some combination of the three.

My best guess would be that at some point, running the dishwasher tripped the breaker. They had space so they added a breaker below it and moved the line to the new breaker. Then it still tripped, so they moved the line at the dishwasher circuit that was already close by.

Either the original line has a fault in it (old aluminum lines can have junction issues over time) or the dishwasher had a short in it, and they either replaced the dishwasher, or the new line they chose didn't fail.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have only six circuits and both of my recent electricians checked and labelled each circuit. I must have had good luck in sparkies

What Rumba said. Why full ass a job when half is plenty.