Originally Posted By: bnelson
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What are the implications of corrosion, like what you’d see on the terminals of an old auto battery, on the neutral bus in the service panel?
What are the implications of corrosion, like what you’d see on the terminals of an old auto battery, on the neutral bus in the service panel?
Originally Posted By: jmyers
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Brandon,
Corrosion on the wiring in the panel is bad, not just on the neutral wires.
Overheating would most likely become the main problem, which can cause a fire to occur but it is possible that it could cause power quality problems and/or the loss of the ground/neutral connections, which can and would be just as dangerous.
Joe Myers
Originally Posted By: Bob Badger
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A higher resistance and high operating temperature of the connection.
Most times this becomes a 'circle' high temps result in a worse connection and more corrosion, resulting in even higher temperatures and around it goes.
Eventually you can not start you car or things in your house do not work.
Eventually the connection may actually burn or melt through and the circuit is now open.
If this happens to be a neutral that is common to more than one circuit, as in a multiwire branch circuit or a service neutral some loads will be exposed to more than 120 volts and others to less than 120 volts.
There is a good possibility that the over voltage will be high enough to damage appliances, under voltage can do damage also.
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Bob (AKA iwire)
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