Re: Clone 320.40 into 330
Originally posted by roger:
Tonyi. of the connectors you listed which ones do you find are being used on the problems you frequently encounter?
We literally use 1000's a week at times and have very few problems.
Roger
Of those thousands, how many do you ever have occasion to take apart and inspect the result?
Have you ever done a post-install disassembly on something that passed inspection and appeared to work?
This is something people doing new installation aren't going to notice or realize is happening.
Any connector that saddles the cable off the connector throat centerline where the spiral armor's thickness is less than the distance from the throat bottom to the connector bottom will tend to drive the wires upward as the saddle clamps down.
Rather than jawing about it ad-nausaeum, why not just construct a couple and look at how the saddles clamp down. Install an AMC-50 on a some 14-2 MC. Look down the throat. The off center displacement of the connector is enough to allow for the cut armor end to rub on the wire insulation as the wires in the box are worked on.
Note: the AMC-50 is even prebushed and still exhibits the kind of issue I'm talking about due to the off-center displacement effect.
An ordinary 8400 with smallish diameter cable (AFC's 14-2 is the smallest I've seen)will exhibit the same offcentering and allowing wires to contact cut ends as they're worked.
[ November 11, 2004, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: tonyi ]