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TWayne

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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:24:48 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 15, 10:58 am, Pat wrote:
On Mar 15, 9:45 am, wrote:

On Mar 15, 12:55 am, "Ralph Mowery"
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"Charles Bishop" wrote in message

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I was repairing some landscaping lighting, and when I took the
cover off
of the outdoor junction box, water came out. Don't know how
much was in
there, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 cup. I'm guessing it wasn't enough to
reach the
wiring connections, held together by wire nuts, or maybe it
did.

Because if it had, the breaker would have tripped, right?

--
charles

It may or may not trip the breaker. Water is not a very good
conductor and
small ammounts can just cause a small current flow. It may even
heat up the
water. Had a water heater that the element cracked and was
causing the
water to heat up way too much. That was casude by some of the
current
bypassing the thermostat and directly heating the water. Still
did not trip
the breaker.

That's also how some of the vaporizers that they sell in the drug
stores to use when you have a cold work. They heat the water by
just
using 2 electrodes near each other submerged in a plastic tank of
water.

... of SALT water. You need to add salt or they don't work. Don't
you have kids?- Hide quoted text -

You only need to add salt if the water is low in minerals. Most tap
waters work fine. I've had various vaporizers of that type and never
had to add salt. In the directions, they talk about adding a small
amount of salt if it doesn't work without it.
When the kids were little we used one. My wife HATES deposit build-up
in kettles etc, so it was run on distilled water - and it worked.

And there was still some scale buildup, wasn't there? It's the
electro-chemical reactions. Now let's sit back and watch the egos take
off on that.

Better than salt is a bit of washing soda or Borax.(if you need to add
anything)