Raw Video: Calif. Wildfire Scorches 800 Homes

[NakedSuit]

One way to deal with it is to hire an electrician to cut all the old interconnections and reconnect them with code compliant methods. New fresh copper interconnections will not be resistive. Another is to be mindful of solar flare activity by the utilities and mitigate the issue by watching for voltage surges and reacting to them. Something we do not do. Sorry for the many posts the news is censoring comments and this important issue needs disclosure.

[NakedSuit]

2000°F melting copper wire and making the light switch (which was off) glow red. Had my wife and I not been home and turned the electricity mains off and called 911, our home might have gone up in flames. This is a real problem.

[NakedSuit]

If the resistance in an interconnection is high (our copper wire was coated green in the black hot wire) and the voltage drops or there is a surge due to a solar flare that makes the device work in a high current region because of melted components, the results can easily be a high current situation for seconds and if there is an interconnection that is resistive due to corrosion or previous arcing (contractors plugging their high wattage power tools into our old flaky circuits)it will heat up.

[NakedSuit]

Last solar flare 1087 this month that very day, one of our light switches glowed red, and the wall got over 100°F. Most if not all dismiss this as coincidence, other than a small handful of scientists. The wiring in our 1970 homes interconnection failed in a low wattage circuit. Our modern devices work that if the voltage drops the current goes up.

[NakedSuit]

We have solar flares right now. These flares, 2012 aside, produce tens of thousands of volts on the long stretches of transmission wires that at some point arc and produce bizarre effects in transformers. All it takes is one transformer to heat up and boom the dry grass underneath goes up in flames. I personally witnessed that one day last year with a solar flare and the transmission lines arcing bluish green on a dewy coastal morning in summer.

[sultar881]

first what third what i dont understand please elaborate

[cyberscoob]

way to not show any homes burning

[GurglingAnimal]

Third....and I'm all the way in England!!!!

[dikar89]

second! :P

[sonamopress]

first!

[Idkplz]

First