Recent content by polartownjunkie

alright alright, thanks guys, yeh its about 12k for a decent new one, i now see where i went wrong with my math, thanks i am going to measure the resistence this weekend and will report my finding because theres the chance for some intresting numbers pouring out

all three, not to mention constantly being moved up and down as the electrodes adjust am i doing the math correctly for energy lost?

not necessarily swapping them, rather rotating them and examining the cables resistance, which increases, i am told, as the 8000 MCM cable heats and disintegrates over time, i have a photo of our most recently failed cable, which after 3 years of duty, finally melted in half

i got an 18000 amp per leg ac electric arc furnace with bus cables over 3 years old with tens of thousands hours running time, our bus cable provider suggest we swap them out every 9 months or at 20% increase in resistance, which got me wondering, 20% increase of a cable newly rated at...