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Re: House fire blamed on smoke detector




"westom" <westom1@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion
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> On Mar 9, 7:59 pm, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Could be they were 20 years old and never cleaned either.
>
>  You dated yourself.  Vacuum tube TVs with tens of thousands of volts
> and plenty of heat were routinely chock full of dust.  Dust was not
> harmful and did not create fires.  Dust remained because nobody wanted
> to stick their hand in there. Dust would not start a fire.  So it was
> left inside hot, high voltage TVs.
>
>

I've seen dust burst in fire in Ham radio linear lamp amplifier, Small fire
that never did any wrong, but its because most of those amplifier were built
in metal case to prevent RF from leaking out too much.. Lets think about a
wooden case...what would happen...











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