Breakers overheating [RE-wrenches]

[Don Loweburg, Offline]

In a message dated 11/13/2000 12:38:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
solar at eagle-access.net writes:

<< I had a breaker mysteriously burn up on a generator circuit.  A 4.5 KW gen 
set
 burned up a 60 amp breaker.  No satisfactory explanation ever surfaced.
  >>
How about bad breaker. No reason to assume breakers can't be bad or defective.
It is strange though. Failed breakers are not a big issue in my field 
experience. Is this more common than I know?
Don

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