Powers2001, Everyone changes fuses to circuit breakers, I also did in my house.
But it won't make anything safer unless you need or want to use a GFI which are now required almost everywhere which I feel is a mistake.
In my new home here on eastern Long Island every circuit was on a GFI breaker but there is a thing called being to safe.
On some very big construction jobs we sometimes spent so much time and money on safety that we hardly worked actually building the building.
Of course we want to be safe, but we also want to get the job done so it is a trade off. I want GFCIs (or GFIs as they are called in the trade) where they are needed, which is anywhere near water.
But I don't want them on my living room, bedroom or even my outside outlets. The outside outlets are of course dangerous and the code requires that they be installed there. But the people who wrote the code were not necessarily electricians or home owners and if you install Christmas Lights, they will trip constantly. Especially if, like me, you live by the sea which is very damp and the things don't want to stay on.
I removed most of them in my house except where I feel they are needed. But thats just me. You should leave them installed to be very safe or if you have small kids or a fish tank.
I once had to change the very large fuses, dozens of them (5,000 amps I think) in a New York city garbage incinerator for GFI breakers which were as large as a Volkswagen and a crane was permanently installed on the panels to crank out those breakers.
To turn on those breakers you had to use a big crank, crank them up, then push a button and stand back as the thing banged on. The incinerator had it's own powerplant to power it.
This bottom picture is that incinerator. I am CAD welding a ground cable here. The top picture is the roof of the Plaza Hotel where I installed the lights to light up the top of the place.
I used some of those spare lights on my reef tank.
But it won't make anything safer unless you need or want to use a GFI which are now required almost everywhere which I feel is a mistake.
In my new home here on eastern Long Island every circuit was on a GFI breaker but there is a thing called being to safe.
On some very big construction jobs we sometimes spent so much time and money on safety that we hardly worked actually building the building.
Of course we want to be safe, but we also want to get the job done so it is a trade off. I want GFCIs (or GFIs as they are called in the trade) where they are needed, which is anywhere near water.
But I don't want them on my living room, bedroom or even my outside outlets. The outside outlets are of course dangerous and the code requires that they be installed there. But the people who wrote the code were not necessarily electricians or home owners and if you install Christmas Lights, they will trip constantly. Especially if, like me, you live by the sea which is very damp and the things don't want to stay on.
I removed most of them in my house except where I feel they are needed. But thats just me. You should leave them installed to be very safe or if you have small kids or a fish tank.
I once had to change the very large fuses, dozens of them (5,000 amps I think) in a New York city garbage incinerator for GFI breakers which were as large as a Volkswagen and a crane was permanently installed on the panels to crank out those breakers.
To turn on those breakers you had to use a big crank, crank them up, then push a button and stand back as the thing banged on. The incinerator had it's own powerplant to power it.
This bottom picture is that incinerator. I am CAD welding a ground cable here. The top picture is the roof of the Plaza Hotel where I installed the lights to light up the top of the place.
I used some of those spare lights on my reef tank.