He looked out over the weaving floor below. Looms were silent. Workers stood idle.
He pulled out his notebook and sketched a quick diagram. "See, current is like water. Voltage is pressure. The conductor is the pipe. If the pipe is too small for the flow, the water heats up the pipe. Same here—but instead of bursting pipes, you get fire." size of conductor
Mrs. Nair almost smiled. "And what do you say?" He looked out over the weaving floor below
He handed her the estimate for new cabling, typed neatly but singed at the edges. He pulled out his notebook and sketched a quick diagram
"Not always bigger," Arjun said. "The right size. Bigger than necessary is just wasteful. Smaller is dangerous. The right size is the one that matches the load, the distance, and the environment. That's the art of it."
She was quiet for a moment. Then, softer: "So bigger wire is always safer?"
And somewhere, in the rebuilt junction box tomorrow, a new, correctly sized cable would hum quietly, doing its job so well that no one would ever notice it existed.