This is an important point.
Back when aluminum wire was used in house wiring many people died due to house fires caused by hot connections. With a hot connection caused by a (relatively) high resistance connection to a large load, enough heat can be produced to cause a fire without amps enough to trip the breaker or melt the fuse. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Atlantic City NJ > a washer between the two electrical conductors. You now have a resistor. The > insidious part is that you do not get an immediate failure, nor is it > something that any amount of fuses or breakers can protect you from. > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
