About wire. A great video about things going awry:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsqe3utT6rs I have seen so many things break or fail it's what I make a living from. Engineers, manufacturers, sales people and government regulators have all done their best then when the damn thing is deployed and dead, they call me. So, since I am an officially an "experienced old guy" near retirement I talk to other old guys like myself. We have similar experiences. We have seen tragedy, loss of treasure and folly a plenty. I told my friend about my sharing the "one size larger" opinion here in kr net, and my friend, the other old guy says " They (engineers) just don't get it, if you want it to last it has to be beefier than code (minimum)." then he raised his voice " It's the MINIMUM!". He went on to say "Code is there to keep idiots from going one size too small from safe." he went on " It's there to stop people from hurting each other. In other words code is like saying only a moron would go smaller: Let's outlaw morons. There is nothing but reliability (at the cost of pennies) to be gained by up sizing." I said " I can't count how many code sized burnt up wire terminals I have cut out and replaced." He says "Right, they (code sized parts) are all on the edge of moron's land." I told him " I have to admit that it is not usually the wire that fails, it's transient electric functions and then wire terminals where things break down." "yeah if the load functions it will be the termination(s) that fails" he replied. ...…............. Just a couple of non engineers discussing the wiring in everything from commercial, shipyard, aircraft, TV, radio, commercial welding and everything else, we have been working on for 50 years.. Maybe I should describe how I terminate a wire on you tube. It's definitely not the way any engineer I have known would do it. Mine never fail. (Neither did Magnolia Hi-Fi's back in the day). Not done to "code", a limit set for the uninformed. Mine definitely exceeds code performance by a wide margin. Only my staff at Mag did it my way, but that's ok on account zero failures in high volume commercial production over 5 years is a good track record I am proud of. A bit extra labor, but worth it. cheers! jg
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