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    luwinava Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Aug 11, 2009, 05:31 PM
    Can substandard electrical wiring installation at home produce electrical arching
    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.

    What's my score? :rolleyes:
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    Aug 11, 2009, 06:06 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by stanfortyman View Post
    Yes and yes.

    What's my score? :rolleyes:
    There is still 49 questions left...
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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

    Quote Originally Posted by andrewc24301 View Post
    there is still 49 questions left...
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    Aug 11, 2009, 06:20 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by tkrussell View Post
    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
    Quote Originally Posted by stanfortyman View Post
    Yes and yes.

    What's my score? :rolleyes:
    :):):):):) your score is 5 stars... thank you very much...

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