ghterve
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- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current.
My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here…
/shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn’t trip.
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house’s electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won’t help.
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
unless the gas pipe melted through
That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me…
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
So glad my wife is not like that
- Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple 7 months ago:
But how is that a criticism of the Mac mini? All it does is give you purchasing flexibility (eg if you already own Apple kbd/mouse). It is like you are implicitly arguing that they should raise the price and include those components. But that would be bad for some consumers that already have those items and would help nobody because you can already buy those separately.
- Comment on They asked for it. 11 months ago:
Please take a moment: They’re - they are (the ’ replaces the space and the a) Their - belongs to them There - a place that is not here
- Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple 1 year ago:
Why don’t you use an apple kbd/mouse/trackpad with your macmini?
- Comment on Starlink 1 year ago:
“blotting out the sky” is hyperbole and not reality. Those pics of the trains of dots in the sky are temporary and only present in the handful of days after a launch.
- Comment on Starlink 1 year ago:
No, many are not on the power grid.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Then they shouldn’t “sell” it.