Another on bites the dust

[Fawken]

Another mobile home caught fire down the street. Window unit overloaded the cheap IDC 110V electrical outlet. Pretty much every mobile home uses IDC for electrical. Those should be outlawed.

 

[Jstpssng]

Mobile home =firetrap.

Enough said.

I hope that nobody was injured.

 

[Fawken]

Mobile home =firetrap.

Enough said.

I hope that nobody was injured.

Didn't see any ambulances. That's the last of 3 fire trucks that were there along with a half dozen sheriff's cars. Power company bucket truck killing the power- just in case they had any delusions about sleeping in there tonight.

 

[Deere Dude]

Ahhh, whats IDC?

 

[Fawken]

Ahhh, whats IDC?

Insulation Displacement Connector. Instead of stripping and terminating the wire on a screw lug, you just push the wire into the the back of the receptacle with a screw driver. You don't even strip back the wire.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mob...me type electric outlet&imgrc=A0G4u5-dhmujDM: