[RE-wrenches] Wire nuts

[Benn Kilburn]

Jerry,
Can you confirm that this was caused by a failure of the wire nut, itself, and not due to user error (not properly stripping enough jacket,  inserting even length wires and sufficiently twisting on the wire nut)

Benn Kilburn
SkyFire Energy Inc. 
780-906-7807

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Jerry Shafer <jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wrenches
> Better pic
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>> On Sep 5, 2016 4:52 PM, "Jerry Shafer" <jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To my fellow wrenches
>> It comes up every so often and with DC, I will not use, approve or pass any wire nuts on any DC side. Some say its OK but the facts are they will fail, this connection was just six years and when l opened the junction box it was glowing and by the looks of it has for some time. There are 8 strings 2 per string and thats a 12.5 % failure rate (the other one was completely distroyed) not to mention the fire hazard in a PVC junction box.
>> Please pass this along and tell everyone to stop using these. 
>> Jerry
>> 
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