From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 months agoaluminum can be used too
Thousands of fires disagree
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
fullsquare@awful.systems 11 months ago
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum