RelativeArea1 to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL that loose wire connections on breakers can create arcs, heats up the wires or the breaker internally and cause an electric firemessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1message-squareTIL that loose wire connections on breakers can create arcs, heats up the wires or the breaker internally and cause an electric fireRelativeArea1 to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
carbon on contacts due to arc burn can also act as a resistance and create fire burned wires must be also snipped or much better, replaced to avoid electric fire.
minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoYep. All the way down to backstabbed outlets (which should be against code but isn’t, at least in the NEC).
Yep. All the way down to backstabbed outlets (which should be against code but isn’t, at least in the NEC).