I'm sure each of you have seen melted plastic on push on connectors. Lots of the time you also see that the push on connectors are copper colored indicating that they have been hot enough to melt off the silver plate or tin/lead plating that is standard on push on terminal connectors. This hot connector bounces right back to why Vanagon starter solenoids sometimes don't work right. Once the resistance builds heat in the connector or the copper feed wire it can't provide the necessary amps to actuate the starter / solenoid combination. Stan Wilder www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel L. Katz" <katzd54@YAHOO.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:52 PM Subject: Re: A/C panel melted
> interesting loophole with those fusible links, yeh? the normal AC current > is enough to cause a very small contact resistance, such as that due a > marginal crimp, to get hot, increase still more in resistance, and > eventually either melt something important, start a fire, or, if one is > lucky, just get so big it severely limits current avaialble to run AC. > similar remarks apply to circuits other than AC. > > dan > > On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:06:46 -0400, Rick- Sacamento -91 Multivan > <personalbsd@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > >A/C panel melted > >I think I know why my A/C is not blowing cold. > >Found this the other day before a trip to Graeagle. > >Any ideas out there to why it happened? > >I thought the fusable link was supposed to melt instead of the connection. > >http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/personalbsd/album?.tok=phSqDWBBOuPlImTb&. > dir=/c37c&.src=ph |
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