29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
6:02 p.m.
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
A bigger issue for me is that the wiring from the
panel for these
heavy-current-draw appliances is aluminum (copper for the general
lighting and receptacles). Among the electricians here, there's no
consenus about what it takes to connect it to the copper leads of the
appliance. The old timers insist that ordinary wire nuts are fine--
some others insist on the grease-filled (gray) wire nuts. Nobody
advocates anything fancier (such as a copper pigtail with compression
fitting).
Wasn't aluminum house wiring outlawed in the US during the 70s? I recall
something about a rash of fires due to wiring in device boxes cracking at
the screw terminals.
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