"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
With my cheap-azz dryer I turn off the heat and let it run for about 15 - 20 minutes to cool off. I leave the belt switch on all the time and shut it down at the breaker box so if there's juice going to the dryer, the belt is running. Not interested in buying a replacement.
Cycling breakers makes them trip at lower amp draw, meaning less likely to burn things, but more likely toshut your shop down with everything going. Which then could burn things in the dryer if the beltstops moving...
Quote from: ebscreen on October 25, 2011, 07:43:01 PMCycling breakers makes them trip at lower amp draw, meaning less likely to burn things, but more likely toshut your shop down with everything going. Which then could burn things in the dryer if the beltstops moving...I was aways told that too, but back when I was in school for electronics we set up a test with varying loads up to and over the breakers rated amperage. The only breakers we were able to put a load on greater then 15% of rated amperage for a duration greater then 20 seconds were the breakers that we cycled more then 200 times. We used a new breaker as our base line. Do what you want but there is no reason in the world to use a breaker for a switch its just bad practice. I should say we also had cycled breakers pop sooner, the point is you can not say with 100% certainty that it will open the circuit sooner in every case. I say why roll the dice.