Overheard a foreman say something that stuck with me

I was working a commercial job last Tuesday and the foreman on site told his apprentice "stop trying to fix everything with a bigger breaker." He was talking about a motor that kept tripping. It made me think about how many times I've seen guys just swap in a 30amp instead of actually troubleshooting the draw. I do commercial painting with lights and fans on temp power and I've learned the hard way that oversizing is just masking a problem. Anyone else catch themselves or others doing this kind of lazy fix?

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matthewgonzalez1d ago

Did you ever think a bigger breaker was the answer too? I used to be the same way, just swap it out and move on. But hearing a foreman call it out like that really changed how I look at fixing things now.