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I think it bears repeating, I blew the breaker when wiring up some contactors because this contactor has nonstandard designs. So when I pushed the start button instead of starting anything up I ended up letting sparks fly and blew the breaker for the whole house. Turns out the contactor has their coil leads on both the top and the bottom of the contactor (normally there's L1 at top, and L2 at bottom), and I just happened to wire both L1 and L2 at the same side at the top and the bottom (thinking that they are just two leads of the same side) and created a short.
Now I have to see if I let the magic smoke out of anything...
For the record I was trying to automate the start capacitor disconnect of a static phase converter. Otherwise I had to throw a frankenstein switch then cut it off shortly after. I still got the job done but did not use the main contactor for turning the phase converter on thinking I might have smoked it. So I still used the original frankstein switch on the phase converter...
Now I have to see if I let the magic smoke out of anything...
For the record I was trying to automate the start capacitor disconnect of a static phase converter. Otherwise I had to throw a frankenstein switch then cut it off shortly after. I still got the job done but did not use the main contactor for turning the phase converter on thinking I might have smoked it. So I still used the original frankstein switch on the phase converter...