I am also at a loss to understand why this would happen at a time of day when the load should have been less - no marquee lights, projector motors, sound equipment, auditorium and lobby lights, etc.
On many occasions when I would come in to open up, I would find numerous fuses so hot that they would burn my fingers. In addition, I could actually see some of the plug fuse elements showing a dull red glow in the dark - I never could understand this. Thinking this meant a bad fuse, I replaced it - same thing. I reported this to the manager several times and nothing was ever done. Even friends in the electrical business were unable to explain this situation. Everyone did agree that this was a potentially life-threatening condition.
Wow, Mike, now that's one for the electrical forensics file...either that or the building was haunted!! Don't think I'd ever seen a situation with glowing plug fuses..anyone else here seen such a thing? Wow.
