Re: EOL's

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 20 Feb 2006 05:49:54 -0800, "Al Colombo"
> <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > It's my understanding that in certain parts of the country Lightning
can be
> > > a problem, the voltage and current that a nearby strike causes on the
> > > protection loop blows the resistors...... Its been known to weld
contacts
> > > closed also......
> >
> > This is one of the possibilities with regards to the original poster.
> > If there were a nearby lightning strike last summer, providing the
> > alarm site is in an area where lightning is common, the contacts could
> > have been lightly welded together so that when he began to work with
> > the switch, flexing it for example or merely inducing a vibration, it
> > could have released them.  If the switch is magnetic, and it probably
> > is, the relatively high current could cause them to magnetically stick
> > together as well I suspect, but I'm not an switch engineer...
>
> Clearly you're not an engineer.

And you are?