In message
<d250d01e39356a4e9cc3b4b459d6655094d97...@ms-cda-01.advanced-input.com>,
dated Fri, 7 Dec 2012, "McInturff, Gary" <gary.mcintu...@esterline.com>
writes:
The counter example, maybe. Is a monitor we built some years ago was at
the start of a fire. Evaluation quickly showed that the monitor was not
the source but rather a bank teller full of Christmas spirit had lit a
candle next to the monitor and didn't blow it out before going home.
Somewhere along the line the candle flame was in contact with the
monitor - 94V0 - eventually caught fire and the ignition source
remained in contact so that the fire spread far enough to ignite some
paper on the monitor etc. Ultimately the legal beagles didn't care it
was cheaper to settle than to litigate so the claim was paid. But maybe
in retrospect it also keep us out of the media rightly or wrongly.
That decision might have contributed to the jillion dollars spent on
whether to include 'candle flame ignition' in IEC 60065 and IEC 60950-1.
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John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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