ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Just What is the Ampacity of Phone Wire, Anyway?

Virgil:
I now know where I would like to go on a "vacation".....down/over to WVA to drive around with you for a few days.....

No one around here would believe the things that you find....

Hey Harold Endean....what do you think of this???

And I thought my parallel fuses were "odd".

John

I got a call to a plumbing supply warehouse several yaers ago cuz their pipe threader stopped working. Evidently 3 weeks before the owner had a retired Boeing electrician rewire the shop. He wired it likw it was an airplane! In every box was 24 volt wires all neatly numbered. All the lights and plugs worked because the wire supplied enuf amps but the first time he fired up the threader the wire vaporized. I spent 3 days there laughing the whole time.
As a side note. One day as I was leaving the owner asked me what I was doing the rest of the day. I said I was doing some wiring for a beautiful young Jewish lady (the owner was also Jewish). He asked me her name and when I told him he said "that's not a Jewish name." I said You mean all this time I've been charging her double and she's not Jewish?" He still kids me about that.
Bob

[This message has been edited by elecbob (edited 12-23-2002).]

"In every box was 24 volt wires all neatly numbered. All the lights and plugs worked because the wire..."

--

Bob, this is not meant to be a joke, but it makes you wonder what causes all these airplanes to fall out of the sky....

(LOCOS) Lack_Of_COmmon_Sense

MTW stands for Minature Telephone Wire, right... I've seen it handle up to 1600A..