She stared at the blackened mess. "So the wire got angry and threw a tantrum?"
"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." size of conductor
She signed it without another word.
Arjun had been an electrical engineer for twenty-three years. He could calculate voltage drop in his sleep and recite the ampacity of copper wire like a prayer. But today, standing on the scorched roof of a textile mill, he felt like a first-year apprentice again. She stared at the blackened mess