Electrical Wire Fire
I was awakened by a strong electrical burning odor around 2:am. The inside of the RV Travel Trailer was filled with smoke. The smoke detectors seem to be working, however, they didn't go off that nigh...
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beemerphile1 wrote:Rascally Road Warrior wrote:
...either one or two of the wires on the neutral bus may have come loose creating additional heat which in turn caused this problem.
The shop claims that it is a good idea to periodically check to make sure that the screws on both buses....
loose/bad connections cause arcing
arcing causes heat
heat burns wires
I've never seen it happen on a neutral buss, it is typically a hot/power wire that overheats. Were you plugged into reversed polarity wiring?
No, it's not. In a 30A service, neutral is a current carrying wire and carries the same current as the hot leg. I have seen many burned neutral wires in marina power pedestals that burned because the wirie used for the neutral feed was undersized and overheated.
