Jerry, Can you confirm that this was caused by a failure of the wire nut, itself, and not due to user error (not properly stripping enough jacket, inserting even length wires and sufficiently twisting on the wire nut)
Benn Kilburn SkyFire Energy Inc. 780-906-7807 > On Sep 6, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Jerry Shafer <jerrysgarag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wrenches > Better pic > > >> On Sep 5, 2016 4:52 PM, "Jerry Shafer" <jerrysgarag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To my fellow wrenches >> It comes up every so often and with DC, I will not use, approve or pass any >> wire nuts on any DC side. Some say its OK but the facts are they will fail, >> this connection was just six years and when l opened the junction box it was >> glowing and by the looks of it has for some time. There are 8 strings 2 per >> string and thats a 12.5 % failure rate (the other one was completely >> distroyed) not to mention the fire hazard in a PVC junction box. >> Please pass this along and tell everyone to stop using these. >> Jerry >> > <2016-09-06 08.29.40.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org >
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