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Alan Wheeler · 22-02-2006, 22:35

Yeah Kai, I wasn't trying to be...err...umm...you know. It was more for others ready than a correction as such.

I wonder though, was the wire coming loose the issue, or was it a result. My thought would have been a too high a load. It's one issue I have always had with the US system of 110V. The currents are huge. Here in NZ we have a 230V system (regulated to +/-10%) so say an electric jug(kettle) of 2400W would draw 10A on our voltage and 21.8A on yours. Now yes at the end of the day it is a total load of 2400W. But current doesn't like traveling across anything that provides a resistance. It produces heat very quickly on any dirty contact.Especially a salt corroded one. So connections on plugs and sockets can get hot very quickly and burn out and also cause terminations to become loose and the wires to burn out or fall out, which of course, equates to more resistance and thus more heat and so on.

22-02-2006, 22:35	#10
Alan Wheeler Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Marlborough Sounds. New Zealand Boat: Hartley Tahitian 45ft. Leisure Lady Posts: 8,042	Yeah Kai, I wasn't trying to be...err...umm...you know. It was more for others ready than a correction as such. I wonder though, was the wire coming loose the issue, or was it a result. My thought would have been a too high a load. It's one issue I have always had with the US system of 110V. The currents are huge. Here in NZ we have a 230V system (regulated to +/-10%) so say an electric jug(kettle) of 2400W would draw 10A on our voltage and 21.8A on yours. Now yes at the end of the day it is a total load of 2400W. But current doesn't like traveling across anything that provides a resistance. It produces heat very quickly on any dirty contact.Especially a salt corroded one. So connections on plugs and sockets can get hot very quickly and burn out and also cause terminations to become loose and the wires to burn out or fall out, which of course, equates to more resistance and thus more heat and so on. __________________ Wheels For God so loved the world..........He didn't send a committee.