mivey
Senior Member
True enough, it could be a severed conductor with a nail bridging the gap. Then the high load was more than the nail contact could handle.
I would not think you would replace the cable without verifying the nail theory. Checking that would be easy enough, although you can't be 100% sure. Putting a high load back on the cable would probably repeat the failure if it was a nail like tryinghard described.
I would not go any further at this point as it was probably a poor connection. If it fails again, wiggling the wires under load might reveal something like the nail scenario.
I would not think you would replace the cable without verifying the nail theory. Checking that would be easy enough, although you can't be 100% sure. Putting a high load back on the cable would probably repeat the failure if it was a nail like tryinghard described.
I would not go any further at this point as it was probably a poor connection. If it fails again, wiggling the wires under load might reveal something like the nail scenario.