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Reply to: by ncdt4u
The wires are insulated with paper and any moisture causes the pairs of wire to start shorting and grounding out from the 48 dc voltage on each pair. That is what generates the heat when the thousand pairs in the splice become one big shorted pair.
Reply to: by ncdt4u
The wires are insulated with paper and any moisture causes the pairs of wire to start shorting and grounding out from the 48 dc voltage on each pair. That is what generates the heat when the thousand pairs in the splice become one big shorted pair.