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When Aluminum Wiring Goes Wrong: What could happen? · Lipps Electric Podcast

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And aluminum was a mistake. They didn't know that at the time.
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A number of homes over a period of time had aluminum wiring installed.
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Tell me a little bit about the problem with aluminum. Doesn't it cause heat? It does.
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It does. And I think the biggest thing to know about aluminum,
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overall, like all the overhead utilities, they use aluminum.
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The wire that connects to your home and runs down into your panel, that's aluminum.
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It's fine. It's designed for that. The risk is the aluminum wiring that runs
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through your walls and runs to your outlets and runs to the switches. That was the mistake.