" And, of course, much of this is because of the value in scrap copper combined with the anonymity of "recycling" operations. Some sort of regulation might be called for, but I don't know how to pull that off."
I recently made trip yo a recycling yard where I was photographed, the transaction video recorded, and my drivers license photographed. They can match me to every item I brought in that day. This helps prevent large scale ripoffs of construction material and disassembling old homes. However, a cable is pretty anonymous and any sort of enforcement is going to require a solid (no reasonable doubt) connection to the actual theft. Which is how it should be. I don't see further regulation making anything but a larger mess than I would like to see. I also don't see this current level of regulation helping at all. I think Cu filled Al wire make a lot of sense. Having seen the effects of weather on connections to aluminum wire I wonder how one makes a reliable connection to this sort of wire for high current applications? Aluminum also hates to be bent and rebent, making work hardening and fracture a realistic failure mode. What strategies prevent this? On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Ben Goren via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On Sep 1, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > SNIP > > > And, of course, much of this is because of the value in scrap copper > combined with the anonymity of "recycling" operations. Some sort of > regulation might be called for, but I don't know how to pull that off. > SNIP > > A Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140901/fb2cedfc/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
