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Originally Posted by thrashercharged
Keep in mind if you oversize the wiring, solder the connections, shorten wires, etc. you're increasing current draw, not decreasing it, which will just make your main breaker get hotter. I'd think your 6AWG wiring and anything that was getting hot was saving your main breaker from tripping sooner!
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That might not actually end up being the case. Several main breaker trips I saw this past season were quite definitely attributable to hot wires warming up the breaker rather than the breaker itself reacting to true overcurrent.