"Domènec" <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com> escribió en el mensaje news:5tc2riF1bf40hU2@mid.individual.net... Estaba peleandome en casa con la manigua procelosa de cables que hay detras de mi pantalla [1] y viendo que el flexo ilumina un lado y no el otro, surgen ideas de mejora: Amigo Dome, como siempre, me cuesta entenderte ;-) Si te valen mis soluciones caseras para problemas caseros

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:11:41 -0500 Bud-- <remove.BudNews@isp.com> wrote: | I have never seen bedframes hitting plugs as a cause behind AFCIs. | Electrical cords lying on the floor that get walked on, under rugs, or | otherwise abused have been mentioned. There was an economic analysis Including chewed on by animals. | done by the CPSC. It was based on the number of electrical fires

Beachcomber wrote: Detecting a 5A 'bad' arc while ignoring an acceptable arc, like a brush motor, does not sound easy. The ground fault detection level required in AFCIs is 5A. The article says AFCIs on the market detect at 50mA. The ones I have seen are at 30mA. I believe the theory is that an arc with a ground present is likely to soon arc to ground and be detected.

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:50:50 GMT Beachcomber <invalid@notreal.none> wrote: | I think the whole idea of AFCI's and their adoption by the US | Electrical Code and Consumer Safety Organizations was because, there | were, at most, one or two deaths per year caused by fires started in | bedrooms caused by bedframes smashing into plugs/outlets. Americans | in general, and the keepers of the NEC specifically

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:31:35 -0400 gfretwell@aol.com wrote: | On 20 Apr 2007 01:04:47 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote: | |>| Most AFCI trips get traced back to ground/neutral faults. That is |>| where the ceiling fans got that bad reputation. It was usually that |>| big cludge wirenut vibrating into the hickey when the fan was running. |>| The original AFCI designs (for the arc fault part