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In Reply to: RE: Safety! posted by Duster on September 9, 2015 at 15:16:32:
"The capacitor leads of the Wima MP3-X2 are not a large gauge conductor to begin with (approx 20 AWG?), and the Wima MP3-X2 is a safety cap designed to bear the brunt of a catastrophic AC event, so Al Sekala did not provide unsafe AC advice, IMHO."
??? huh?
X caps are placed across the line and so do not carry full load current by definition. They are safe only since they are designed to fail open. It's not as if having X caps in there somehow magically increases the current handling capacity of the cat 5. That is part of the problem as I mentioned. That tiny gauge cat 5 is almost guaranteed to be no where sufficient to handle the current the upstream breaker can pass without tripping. Since there is no device protection fuse shown in this filter, that puts the cat 5 at risk.
Put it this way. That thing could never get any kind of UL rating the way it is....that ought to cause hesitation.
The other point I made, insulation's voltage rating....ignore the manufacturer ratings at your own risk. I certainly hope no one innocent gets hurt by anyone taking your advice.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Safety! - Ugly 09/9/1517:40:52 09/9/15 (5)
- Hold on there... - Duster 18:10:45 09/9/15 (4)
- RE: Hold on there... - Ugly 19:09:42 09/9/15 (3)
- Settle down dudes! - bartc 19:50:34 09/9/15 (2)
- RE: Settle down dudes! - Ugly 20:28:41 09/9/15 (0)
- Hey now... - Duster 20:08:48 09/9/15 (0)