Timeline for Is electrical Arc and overload the only potential fire causer for electrical wiring?
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| Jan 24, 2021 at 10:50 | vote | accept | Qiuzman | ||
| Jan 16, 2021 at 13:11 | history | edited | Qiuzman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2021 at 1:30 | comment | added | Qiuzman | I just wanted to understand potential fire hazards in general to see if something unintentional like this would lead to a fire and protect against it. | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 1:17 | comment | added | Qiuzman | I installed two new double outlets. I used a pair of Klein wire strippers and they strip from 8awg to 18awg. I have 14awg wire but the Klein’s suck in the fact the printing on them is engraved on black blades so it could be hard to see. Well my last outlet I did when I attached pigtails to terminal one wire snapped so I must have nicked it . So now I’m second guessing myself thinking I could have done elsewhere on top of my lineman’s nicking wire as pretwisting. So if somehow a wire does break while in wall I’m hoping I understand what problems could arise. Afci just seems like nice safeguard. | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 0:57 | comment | added | Ed Beal | Is there a problem you are trying to solve? Many homes have high resistance grounding electrodes it takes 6-8 ohms of resistance to ground to clear a direct fault to ground many homes have much higher levels even with multiple electrodes and I have seen a clamped hot conductor actually turn building materials to charcoal without tripping and to the arc fault it must have looked like a resistive load so no they are not fool proof. | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 0:37 | answer | added | Greg Hill | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 23:31 | history | edited | Qiuzman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 23:29 | comment | added | jsotola |
there is another .. the unforeseen circumstance
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 23:23 | history | asked | Qiuzman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |