To preface, this is 100% my fault. I installed the plug in the dead of winter, and i didn't manage to torque anything to spec... (off site images warning)
This is what happens when the cord that powers all 50 amps of a mobile home gets pulled out of the plug assembly.
This really is a shit design. The live(s) should disconnect before the return, but US plug standards so...
Yep. You lose neutral first! It started with Neutral getting pulled, then next came the red phase. As you can see, white has been warm for some time....
Heres the extent of the damage, the controller of an evap cooler. Some blown fuses otherwise.
Real lucky on this one!
Here's the MOV since the one on the surge suppressor did jack for shit!
I think i might make jewelry out of it.... It already has a hole punched in it!
Here's the surge suppressor that was running the AV system. (all 120-240v systems)
It did its job. And without starting a fire!
Not much damage to speak of.
No load disconnect?
This one was on countertop duty what for the microwave and whatnot.
Load disconnect. Good! A little soot. Not teabag!
Hmm. On the older side for sure.... Did its job! I ripped the trace.... Oops.
This bastard did its damndest to burn the place down! This is what ran my bench.
Nice soot. No disconnect here either!
Jesus fuck! I don't think the thermal fuses are real here....
Nope! That's why it blew sparks that lit my bowl of cotton buds on fire.
Now for the protectors that did jack shit for all. Belkin. This is what the evap was plugged into!
Belkin. A white and a black one. Both the same (lack of) failure mode!
Nope. Not the boards fault!
Sadly, the black one was powering my Radios, both Ham and broadcast. The ham radios switch modes swallowed it and burped, while the Yamaha receiver was saved by a line noise filter i installed that included surge protection. It clamped and blew the fuse. I pulled the module and bypassed it, but after testing, it would seem to still work, surge and all, so i reinstalled it. My furnace i thought had blown the trafo. But i found a note scribbled in pencil on the sheet metal about an edison screw fuse service center in the air-space above the furnace. The 15 amp fuse had blown. I replaced it and all was good.
Now for the "surge suppressor" that ran my 13/5 Centimeter packet and part 15 data wireless "rack"
*cough* i'm an idiot *cough* This had a shit-ton of switch mode "Wall Warts" plugged in. They all are rated 110-240v. No damage here! I got lucky. This won't do jack shit for surges! Make sure your surge suppressors, are surge suppressors! Sadly, this is dead as well as i had to break the case to open it.
If i can find the fuses (and i'm asked) i will post those as well.
This is what happens when the cord that powers all 50 amps of a mobile home gets pulled out of the plug assembly.
This really is a shit design. The live(s) should disconnect before the return, but US plug standards so...
Yep. You lose neutral first! It started with Neutral getting pulled, then next came the red phase. As you can see, white has been warm for some time....
Heres the extent of the damage, the controller of an evap cooler. Some blown fuses otherwise.
Real lucky on this one!
Here's the MOV since the one on the surge suppressor did jack for shit!
I think i might make jewelry out of it.... It already has a hole punched in it!
Here's the surge suppressor that was running the AV system. (all 120-240v systems)
It did its job. And without starting a fire!
Not much damage to speak of.
No load disconnect?
This one was on countertop duty what for the microwave and whatnot.
Load disconnect. Good! A little soot. Not teabag!
Hmm. On the older side for sure.... Did its job! I ripped the trace.... Oops.
This bastard did its damndest to burn the place down! This is what ran my bench.
Nice soot. No disconnect here either!
Jesus fuck! I don't think the thermal fuses are real here....
Nope! That's why it blew sparks that lit my bowl of cotton buds on fire.
Now for the protectors that did jack shit for all. Belkin. This is what the evap was plugged into!
Belkin. A white and a black one. Both the same (lack of) failure mode!
Nope. Not the boards fault!
Sadly, the black one was powering my Radios, both Ham and broadcast. The ham radios switch modes swallowed it and burped, while the Yamaha receiver was saved by a line noise filter i installed that included surge protection. It clamped and blew the fuse. I pulled the module and bypassed it, but after testing, it would seem to still work, surge and all, so i reinstalled it. My furnace i thought had blown the trafo. But i found a note scribbled in pencil on the sheet metal about an edison screw fuse service center in the air-space above the furnace. The 15 amp fuse had blown. I replaced it and all was good.
Now for the "surge suppressor" that ran my 13/5 Centimeter packet and part 15 data wireless "rack"
*cough* i'm an idiot *cough* This had a shit-ton of switch mode "Wall Warts" plugged in. They all are rated 110-240v. No damage here! I got lucky. This won't do jack shit for surges! Make sure your surge suppressors, are surge suppressors! Sadly, this is dead as well as i had to break the case to open it.
If i can find the fuses (and i'm asked) i will post those as well.
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