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>But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it's broken, it takes 5 seconds This is so incredible false, cable quality varies greatly: - wires, gauge an
by xxs 6y ago
>But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it's broken, it takes 5 seconds
This is so incredible false, cable quality varies greatly:
- wires, gauge and material. Copper is expensive and some cheat using aluminum or Al plated copper. Gold plated terminals, tinned copper, etc.
- wire material and single/multi strand determines resistance and current rating, along with loses in the cable.
- insulation and sleeves can be made from different materials with a lot of properties, incl. max temperature, flame retardant and so on: pvc - cheap, rubber - expensive, nylon/polyamid - expensive, silicon - very expensive.
And that just touches the basics...
- Chris2048 6y ago"find out if it's broken" isn't the same thing as cable properties/quality. If the cable fails to carry a signal, or fails to do so without interference, it should be pretty easy to determine this. Failure to do this would make it "faulty".
- xxs 6y agoLets say the cable catches fire due to high resistance/poor isolation (used at 40-50C or close to oven exhaust, causing thermal runaway) - is it broken? In that regard you can use a lamp cable to connect an oven - it will totally work for 5seconds, it might burn down later, though.
- Chris2048 6y agoSO a QA process that tests for more than 5 seconds will find that.