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Can improper wiring actually cause a fire?
As you all know, a troll hijacked one of my posts and kept insisting that
omitting a neutral on a pure 240v circuit would cause a fire, which would invalidate the insurance. But that brought up the question in my mind, can improper wiring actually cause a fire? Presumably any fool is capable of using the right gauge cable and breaker for the current, terminating all cables in junction boxes, using a suitable cover on the boxes, and securing the cable so it won't rip out of the box. Given that, could doing anything improper actually result in a fire? Seems to me that errors will result in the circuit not working, or a problem occur in the (presumably) fire resistant boxes. Given those basics being done right; what errors would result in fires? (I suppose one example might come from my cottage. It has cable entering the back of a kitchen cabinet and then going up to, and across the top. A mouse chewed through the wire to get into the cabinet and short circuited it, inches away from a pile of paper napkins. Seeing what happened to the mouse, I have to think I was lucky it didn't catch the napkins on fire. Obviously the cable shouldn't have been in the cabinet.) |
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