pic: 3692's PDP after catching on fire at Queen City

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by kpie3692

CRE has contacted us and wants us to send them the PDP for analysis. I'm curious to see what they find and I hope they follow up with us on the cause.

It was for sure a massive short but the inline breaker and the main breaker never tripped throughout the fire. We are very careful with our electronics so I'm confident it wasnt a chip, that only leaves manufacturing defects.

...or a faulty termination.
...or a jammed breaker.
...or a motor controller fault.
...or a wire with some nicked strands from stripping.
etc.

My point is that unless you have some very specific and compelling evidence to rule out everything else (or confirm it was a mfg defect) I don't think that you should be so quick to throw CTE under the bus for this!

For example, if a few strands of one wire contacted the terminal of another wire it would take much less than 40A to heat up those strands enough to light some plastic on fire.