Fuzzbutt17
Simple Q...obviously a fitting name.
It's Simply, not Simple. Perhaps a new eyeglass prescription is in order.
Don't say I didn't warn you about showing your ignorance of electronics.
Yes, I've only been designing and building electronics for the past 30 years. Never managed to learn a thing in all that time.
When you have a short the ONLY possibility is that you have LOWERED resistance. This is because you have now put a lower resistance path in parallel with the original load.
THAT'S not the resistance I have been referring to. I have been referring to the resistance of the SHORT ITSELF.
I made this clear previously when I said "When I refer to higher resistance, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE RESISTANCE OF THE SHORTED CONNECTION (emphasis added). If it's an exceedingly low resistance, then it won't cause any heating to speak of."
Did you not bother to read what I wrote? I wrote it in rather simple English so I don't see why it would be difficult to understand to anyone who bothered to read it.
The reason it heats up is that being the "path of least resistance" all the current wants to flow through it rather than the proper path of higher resistance.
No, not all of the current necessarily wants to flow through it unless the other end of the cable is open which may or may not be the case. The current divides proportionally to the resistances in parallel. And if you want to get technical, the resistance increases as the wire heats up.
You create a situation where only part of the wire is conducting all of the current and it heats up much in the same way as the filament in a light bulb or the element in an oven.
See above.
A short will do one of two things: trip the breaker or spark and melt the strand of wire.
You're forgetting number three. The wire simply heats up.
For it to melt, it must exceed its melting point. And to exceed its melting point (which is just a little over 1,000 degrees), it would require a sufficient amount of current. And there's no guarantee of that because how much current is drawn depends on the resistance.
If the resistance is high enough (and again, this is the "high resistance" I've been referring to), it won't melt. And there are many materials whose flash point is well below 1,000 degrees.
When you have an open circuit that is a different situation. It creates a "spark gap" that causes heat as a spark of current jumps between the two near touching conductors.
It is not "higher resistance" at all. It is a SPARK GAP.
Again you drone on as if you never bothered to read what I actually wrote.
I didn't say an open circuit. I said a partial open. This is a case where the circuit hasn't gone fully open, but instead presents a high enough resistance to cause significant heating.
In a case where you have a short it creates a path of low/no resistance which in turn conducts too much current and trips the breaker.
Only if the short's resistance is low enough to cause the breaker to trip. If the resistance is high enough, it won't cause the the breaker to trip but may still heat up to the point that it can cause a fire.
As for pride in selling to Asian customers...
That is different from pride in my products. It is the pride of re-claiming what was lost.
At this time in history the US owes a significant percentage of our national debt to Asian countries.
There is NO DOUBT that this is going to end badly for our children and our children's children.
Signs of recession and financial imbalance are all around us and only getting worse.
Fair 'nuff.