<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maybe this should be on the NABCEP test.<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>R. Walters</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></span></div><div><div>On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:04 PM, benn kilburn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Hopefully any crew installing PV, and familiar with this debate (which they should be) can easily distinguish between the GBL-4 and the GBL-4DBT. The weight difference is quite noticeable. If it feels light for its size, it's aluminum, dont use it!!! If it has some distinct weight to it, then it's most likely the copper DBT, giv'er!<div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 12, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Jamie Johnson wrote:</div><blockquote><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; "><div style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; overflow-x: auto; "><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div> That looks like a tin plated aluminum lug (aluminum corrosion) with a plated steel screw (rusted screw).......</div><div> </div><div align="left">Here is an explanation of the differences between both ILSCO GBL 4 lugs from John Wiles Code Corner in Homepower issue 102<br></div><div> </div><div>"<font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman">The Ilsco GBL-4DBT is a lay-in lug</font></font></font></div><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><div align="left">made of solid copper, which is then tin-plated. It has a</div><div align="left">stainless steel screw to hold the wire. The lug accepts a #14</div></font></font></font><div align="left"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman">(2 mm</font></font></font><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman">2</font></font></font><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman">) to #4 (21 mm</font></font></font><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="1" face="Palatino-Roman">2</font></font></font><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman">) copper conductor. It is listed for</font></font></font></div><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><font color="#1a1818" size="2" face="Palatino-Roman"><div align="left">direct burial (DB) and outdoor use and can be attached to</div><div align="left">aluminum structures (the tin plate). The much cheaper Ilsco</div><div align="left">GBL-4 lug looks identical, but is tin-plated aluminum, has</div><div>a plated screw, and is not listed for outdoor use."</div><div> </div></font></font></font></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>