Sparks seen in Baseboard heater

[Kashif]

I live in a Condo Apartment. It has quite old baseboard heater. It was quite
loose and displaced from the wall so I was trying to tighten its screws and
then found that it sparks when it moves. Its working fine. Does it need to be
fixed or any fire hazard?

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[Tony944]

"Kashif" wrote in message
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I do not know what part of world you live in but normal sense telling you
that
you have problem. At no time you should get sparks practically on any
equipment
that it has solid hook up/// The spark is telling you, that something is
loos are
something is shorting in either case it MUST BE CORRECTED Otherwise you will
have fire sooner or later.

[amdx]

On 12/23/2016 3:44 PM, Kashif wrote:
> I live in a Condo Apartment. It has quite old baseboard heater. It was
> quite
> loose and displaced from the wall so I was trying to tighten its screws and
> then found that it sparks when it moves. Its working fine. Does it need
> to be
> fixed or any fire hazard?
>

You need to get it fixed. Sooner rather than later.

It is probably a poor connection, poor connections get hot and could
cause a fire. It could also have been caused by one of your screws in
the wrong place hitting the wire.
I got a whiff of something overheating in my home on several
successive days, but only a whiff, I couldn't track it down.
Finally I tracked it to an outlet behind a TV and stand.
The wire came to the outlet and made a connection, then left
and went on to a couple of freezers. Because of the poor connection,
when the freezers ran the connection on the outlet got hot. This caused
the outlet housing and cord plugged into the outlet to get hot.
I took the paneling off that section, the outlet housing fell
apart when I started to replace it. the wire running to and from the
outlet also had been overheated with burned insulation.
I consider myself lucky that it didn't cause a fire.
Mikek


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[default]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:44:01 +0000, Kashif wrote:

> I live in a Condo Apartment. It has quite old baseboard heater. It was
> quite loose and displaced from the wall so I was trying to tighten its
> screws and then found that it sparks when it moves. Its working fine.
> Does it need to be fixed or any fire hazard?

Fix it ASAP, it is certainly a fire hazard. Poor connections generate
heat and oxidize the metal (making the connection worse) and cause the
insulation to break down, all contribute to fire hazard.

If it is well-designed your last line of defense against a fire is the
metal and other fire resistant materials present in the construction. The
hope is that these elements will resist the heat and arcing long enough
for the wires to vaporize or the circuit to short and blow a breaker.
(fail open or fail shorted) "Accidents" are usually the result of a
combination of failures culminating in a catastrophe.

It is most definitely NOT WORKING FINE, it just hasn't failed
catastrophically... yet.

[Kashif]

replying to default, Kashif wrote:
Thanks for the reply and important information.

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[intern...@my_keyboard.com]

On 03 Jan 2017 14:50:44 GMT, default <defa...@defaulter.net> wrote:

>Fix it ASAP, it is certainly a fire hazard. Poor connections generate
>heat and oxidize the metal (making the connection worse) and cause the
>insulation to break down, all contribute to fire hazard.
>
>If it is well-designed your last line of defense against a fire is the
>metal and other fire resistant materials present in the construction. The
>hope is that these elements will resist the heat and arcing long enough
>for the wires to vaporize or the circuit to short and blow a breaker.
>(fail open or fail shorted) "Accidents" are usually the result of a
>combination of failures culminating in a catastrophe.

The good thing is that the sparks will stop as soon as the house burns
to the ground. So you have two choices. Wait until the Baseboard heater
starts a fire, or set the house on fire right now, and take care of the
problem permanently.

The easiest way is to just toss a burning match into a pile of shreaded
newspaper on top of your couch. Pop a can of beer, and watch till the
couch is completely burning. Then go outside and watch your house burn
to the ground.

Best of all, you'll save a lot of money on home repairs

[Sam]

replying to internet-user, Sam wrote:
> est way is to just toss a burning match into a pile of shreaded newspaper on
top of your couch. Pop a can of beer, and watch till the couch is completely
burning. Then go outside and watch your house burn to the ground.
> Best of all, you'll save a lot of money on home repairs

Too Funny!