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Title: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Frank DeWitt on March 29, 2018, 01:49:02 PM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/)
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Erik Jerde on March 29, 2018, 02:47:25 PM
Kill it with fire!  Oh wait, it’s already on fire.
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Chris Hindle on March 29, 2018, 05:04:29 PM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/)
Houston, we have a problem.....

Chris.
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: John L Nobile on March 29, 2018, 05:10:41 PM
That's a big fog machine.
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Art Welter on March 29, 2018, 05:35:25 PM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/crappyelectrical/permalink/785781914954735/)
Cool video, hope someone turned off the breaker before more melting and fire. Wish they would have left in the original sound, nothing quite like the buzz that type of a short makes.

Fortunately, I haven't heard that buzz again since a "learning moment" on tour in 1978...

Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Tim McCulloch on March 29, 2018, 06:32:12 PM
Is there a public view version of this?
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Milt Hathaway on March 29, 2018, 07:27:48 PM
Is there a public view version of this?

https://i.imgur.com/Q0I8zap.gifv
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Tim McCulloch on March 30, 2018, 11:37:28 AM
https://i.imgur.com/Q0I8zap.gifv

Thanks, Milt!
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Robert Lofgren on March 30, 2018, 04:45:00 PM
That must be one of those lightning bolt I’ve always heard of.

I’m told that they are hard to capture on camera...
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Dave Garoutte on March 30, 2018, 05:02:20 PM
That's just scary!
That's a shitload (technical term) of current to heat up those bolts like that.
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: John Fruits on March 30, 2018, 07:35:41 PM
That's just scary!
That's a shitload (technical term) of current to heat up those bolts like that.
Just for clarity, is that an imperial or metric shitload?
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Mark Cadwallader on March 30, 2018, 08:04:55 PM
Just for clarity, is that an imperial or metric shitload?

It depends on the bolt threads, of course!
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Chris Hindle on March 31, 2018, 06:27:01 AM
Just for clarity, is that an imperial or metric shitload?
That's the thing about 'lectricity.
mind over matter.
It don't mind, cause you don't matter.
Equal opportunity disaster.
Chris.
 
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Stephen Kirby on April 09, 2018, 06:48:25 PM
Something about that looks like plating equipment.  Lot of corrosion, especially the box behind.
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Mike Sokol on April 09, 2018, 07:10:05 PM
Something about that looks like plating equipment.  Lot of corrosion, especially the box behind.

One of the generator manufacturers I've talked to has said that they don't want their genny frames double bonded to the service neutral bond since you can then have neutral load currents flowing though the control panels and cause bolts and such to heat up. Looks like something like that might be happening here. Scary stuff, cause that's a shit-ton of amps. 
Title: Re: Something wrong Mounting bolts glow red
Post by: Kevin Conlon on April 15, 2018, 05:55:03 PM
That's just scary!
That's a shitload (technical term) of current to heat up those bolts like that.
A guy brought me a bike with weird running problems. Codes would not show anything. Bike warming up on dyno, checking my connections,etc. Ready to ride and find problem. No seat, sitting on battery, burned a blister on my ass from a loose connection.  Problem found and solved. Charged him 200.00 for the burn. I cannot see the posted video, thought this might fit.