MicroVAX II

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Sun Nov 24 09:50:00 2002

>No. The wires are connected in parallel. They have different lengths
and thus different resistance >- the longer the higher. "Current allways
uses the way of lowest resistance." So the shortest wire >has to carry a
higher current than the other wires. The wire can carry this higher
current, but the >connector can't. So the _connector_ heats up and "the
magic blue smoke escapes"...
>Solution was to use equal length wires (=equal current distribution
among wires/connectors) and
>better connectors that can carry higher current.

I'll try to stop that late night thinking - it never works :-)

Antonio
Received on Sun Nov 24 2002 - 09:50:00 GMT