Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Evan -
I wonder about that too, but perhaps someone had been spraying "contact cleaner" inside the connector at one time. Or perhaps in a saltwater environment in an earlier life. There shouldn't be anything flammable in there. The 300 series had a little "fish paper" liner inside the backshell, I don't know if the 400 (or 2400) had the same. The 240 appears on pins 1 and 4, which are diagonal, rather than adjacent, but I don't think that changes the path that much. Perhaps some small "creature" had made a home or nest in there???
Bottom line though is that the 400 series connectors are only rated at 250VAC, and most "220" these days is at least 240, and many very near 250 (125 VAC line), so it might not take much.
73, Garey - K4OAH Glen Allen, VA Drake 2-B, 4-B & C-Line Service Supplement CDs <www.k4oah.com> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have my doubts about moisture accumulation in a Jones connector causing it to go up in a blaze of glory. Sounds like some very, very unusual circumstances to say the least. If the supply and RF deck were in the same environment, and there was that much moisture/condensation in the air to cause flashover at 220vac, it stands to reason that there would have been a high voltage flashover or RF arcing in other areas due to smaller spacing and higher voltages. I'm not disputing that a flashover occurred, but I'm apprehensive about the cause.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
