Marks58
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- Newton Falls, Ohio, U.S.A.
Hello all, searched thru posts and couldn't find an answer to my heat trace question(s). If 240V is applied to a 120V heat trace over a period of time, would it be ruined? It didn't catch on fire. Yet.:happyno: (Somebody hooked it up wrong or....)
I megged it and got a low reading (15Megaohms) but haven't been able to access the outside area yet so there could be some braid touching one of the bus wires or a bad splice or....
Also I read where I should meg btwn the braid and the pipe. But aren't they touching here and there?
This is a job at work that got dumped on me because it's not a fun one. I have only worked there a year so don't know the history of this heat-trace installation.
I megged it and got a low reading (15Megaohms) but haven't been able to access the outside area yet so there could be some braid touching one of the bus wires or a bad splice or....
Also I read where I should meg btwn the braid and the pipe. But aren't they touching here and there?
This is a job at work that got dumped on me because it's not a fun one. I have only worked there a year so don't know the history of this heat-trace installation.