angela_harris•3mo ago

Had a 15 year old Dover governor cable snap on me yesterday in the middle of a full load test

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4 Comments

phoenix24628d ago

Read somewhere that old copper wire gets brittle and can snap like that.

uma_williams3mo ago

Fifteen years is a long time for a cable to hold up. That's a scary failure point during a test.

the_taylor3mo ago

Guess it finally got tired of my tests, huh?

holly_reed553mo ago

What kind of tests were you running on it? Were you just plugging and unplugging it a bunch, or did you have it under some kind of load? A cable that old failing during a stress check is a pretty clear sign it was way past its time.