Re: EOL's

["Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is not terribly unusual to find an EOL on a fireloop that has drifted far
enough out of specs so as to cause a loop trouble or a short.

"Al Colombo" <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1140356586.228923.317770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I know what you think you mean.  I also know you're completely
>> wrong about tolerance.  I suggest you study the matter a while.
>> Then come back and correct yourself.
>
> I don't mean to belittle you as you are obviously trying to do to me,
> but you really show how little practical field or bench repair
> experience you have when you say that high temperatures, combined with
> high humidity cannot affect resistance in a carbon resistor.
>
> Although it may not be common for a field resistor to change value
> based on high ambient heat and high levels of humidity, it can and does
> happen in the real world.  To tell anyone that this is not so is doing
> them a disservice.  Also, perhaps this man's resistor suffered an
> induced high current due to a nearby lighting strike, in which case the
> excessive heat caused by the high current could have super heated the
> carbon, causing its properties to change.
>
> What I've told him I stand behind from both my electronic training and
> my experience in the field, which includes 4 years of schooling, 18
> years of field experience, and more than 15 years of work in trade
> journalism working with the men and women who work in the field in
> security.  I also hold a technican's class amateur radio license,
> KC80CV.
>
> I stand behind my statement 100% unless someone else who has some real
> engineering knowledge can step up and refer me to an on-line source of
> information that says, as you have, that temperature and humidity,
> combined with time, cannot change the value of a carbon resistor.
> That's my final word until that day comes.
>
> Al
>
>
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