pixx on Nostr: ...i think i just figured out what happened Cc khm, i think you can give useful ...

...i think i just figured out what happened

Cc khm (npub19av…rp6r), i think you can give useful feedback here

I'd noticed a breeze coming from the circuit breaker panel due to shitty insulation for ages, way before the fire

I think the high winds of the storm, at like 5F temperatures, was providing inadvertent _active cooling_ to the circuit breaker

So as the wires and breaker were heating up due to overload, the breakwr was cooled down

But the circuit ran through a better insulated part of the house

So eventually, the breaker trips - but the circuit was already far, far hotter than the breaker

Still not certain how the heat translated into fire several hours after the breaker tripped, but - that might explain why the breaker failed?

Does this make sense?