"No, ma'am," Arjun said quietly. "It got hot. Then hotter. The insulation softened, shorted against the conduit, and the arc did the rest."
This is why you should never simply replace a breaker with a larger one without checking the wire size first. That is a recipe for burning your house down. size of conductor
That night, Arjun sat in his truck outside the mill and watched the sunset paint the sky the color of hot copper. He thought about all the shortcuts he'd seen in his career—thinner wires, tighter budgets, tighter schedules. Every one of them a gamble. "No, ma'am," Arjun said quietly
Think of it like a counting game where the wire gets smaller as the number gets bigger. shorted against the conduit