Re: EOL's

["ABLE_1" <able1no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is not true that if copper is heated and quickly cooled it will lose it
ductile strength and become brittle??  Maybe when it was processed it was
not tempered properly.  Just be happy in the fact that is was not stranded
wire and all but one strand had broken.  A good reason to use solid wire in
Fire Alarms.


> ot...
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> ever see firewire become brittle?
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> this one drove me nuts today...kept stripping it back putting it in the
> termination block on a new smoke (old house, old wire) and the freeking
> thing would break after we put it back up...i about had a fit...happend 3
> times on different terminations...up down up down up down. Maybe I should
> just become a salesman and keep my fat ass on a cushioned chair.
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> hmmm...nah.
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> "ABLE_1" <able1no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Thanks for all the thought even if they were slightly off tangent.
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> | Yes the resistOr did change value (up) and I would think that a high
> voltage
> | surge would have degraded the value down not up if not open altogether.
> | Weird things do happen and sometimes in ways you would not expect.
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> | Again thanks for the "responsible comments".
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> | > The resister changed value not colors.
> | > It reads more the the markings on it?
> | > And no one was there and swaped it out.
> | > I never saw a carbon resister change unless it had a lot of power go
> therw
> | > it.
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