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

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Originally Posted by Tungrus

Are you or CRE doing any analysis as to why this happened? If it was a short, the inline circuit breaker or the main breaker should have tripped (it auto resets and finally the main breaker trips), I think.

Curious to know if it the heating started on the PDP PCB (internal circuit board) somehow (possibly a metal chip that got under the cover of PDP), so the bypassed inline circuit breaker did not trip and before the main breaker (120A), tripped it melted the plastic.

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.