[Amps] AC wiring

[R.Measures]

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:15 AM, m.ford wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "R.Measures" <r at somis.org>
> To: "Tony King - W4ZT" <amps080605 at w4zt.com>
> Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] AC wiring
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>> On Oct 19, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Tony King - W4ZT wrote:
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>>> Seems a lot of folks have opinions and that is a good thing. Perhaps 
>>> I
>>> am just a little more anal about keeping wires cool (yes, I HAVE had 
>>> a
>>> house fire). Fortunately it wasn't caused by under sized electrical
>>> service.
>>>
>> The last house fire in this neighborhood was caused by rodents eating
>> the vinyl insulation on electrical wires.  This happened after the new
>> owner of the house decided to get rid of all the cats living on his 
>> 2.5
>> acres.
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> I lost everything in a house fire in 1978. Caused by red squirrels 
> chewing
> on the newly installed Romex. The arc in the wall was extinguished when
> the newly installed circuit breaker welded shut causing the pole pig 
> to boil.
> Had they left the original plug fuses and panel in place the old 
> farmhouse
> would still be here. The NEC can spec all the interupting capacity 
> they want
> but plug fuses don't know jack about  di/dt  and everytime I see 
> another house
> fire I gotta wonder.

Interesting account, Mike.  Are red squirrels too big for domesticated 
felines to munch?
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> Mike k1ern
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Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org