Hi Harry
Well to start with breakers in the load center are not made to used as a switch that's to say they are not made to be turn off and on to many times unlike a light switch on the wall,,,
just not made the same way inside the breaker.
The light switch is a $1.25 item and my 50 amp.breaker runs about $28.oo dollars...
And then again my breaker cabinet/load center is in the corner of the shop and it would take a bit of work to get to it plus that's why I have a comp.that will keep the air up at 175lbs.when I need it but I don't want it to run at night time or when I'm not home and a device would take care of that error real quick...15mins.run time max thing....at one startup..
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Originally Posted by harrysin Bj, I know that I'm going to regret asking, but why not do as Doug suggests and as I do?
"(I just kill the 2 20 amp breakers in my shop when I leave)"
Years ago I had a garden reticulation system where water from the bore was insufficient so I used to pump it into a 1000gal. tank and reticulate from there with a separate pump. The point of this story is that one night the tank sprung a leak and the pump kept going all night because I had fitted an air pressure level switch to the tank. I therefore fitted a solar time switch to make sure it didn't happen again. |