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Can substandard electrical wiring installation at home produce electrical arching

Asked Aug 11, 2009, 05:31 PM — 6 Answers
Can substandard electrical wiring installation at home produce electrical arching? Then fire?

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Aug 11, 2009, 05:46 PM


Yes and yes.

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Aug 11, 2009, 06:06 PM
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Yes and yes.

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Aug 11, 2009, 06:10 PM


Have any pictures of this work?

Poor connections cause arcing. Poor, sloppy workmanship, not so much, but is a real good indication of poor connections.

An every electrical fire is caused by arcing. Most very slow creating heating smoking connections, many real arcing sparks, and some BOOM.
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Aug 11, 2009, 06:11 PM


Lmao

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Aug 11, 2009, 06:20 PM
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and some BOOM.
And how!

Will never forget the day I heard a 480 dead short inside a j-box in the wall of a garbage disposer at a hospital. I was standing in the hall way about 40 feet away when the maintenance main flipped on the breaker to test, sounded like a shot gun went off, and I recall the hall lights flickered.
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Aug 12, 2009, 12:19 AM
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Yes and yes.

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your score is 5 stars..... Thank you very much.....
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