Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 6/5/06, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please consider the physics (or electrical engineering) of the situation. If the wiring is drawing a lot of current with "nothing connected" the energy has to be going somewhere, as heat. I would expect it to start a fire rather quickly.
I've dug wire out of walls where it's charred the studs to which it's attached. Sure, it *could* have started a fire, but it didn't. Besides, for sufficiently long wire runs, given equal deterioration of cable jacket, the heat dissipation per linear unit may be low enough not to light anything on fire, but still dissipate an inordinate amount of power. Sure, if you draw 10A through 6" of #20 wire, it'll heat up red hot. Now, draw that same 10A through, say, 100' of that same #20 wire, and it won't heat as much (but it will still probably get too hot to touch). Not to mention the voltage drop ... but that's another situation entirely.
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