[chbot] Matthias Wandel, and his amazing exploding SSR

[Andy ZL3AG]

The sad thing is his insurance company will be trolling youtube and will quietly file that video in his file, and happily keep taking his house insurance premiums, and will only pull it out when he makes a claim later when something else burns his house down.


On 23/08/2018, at 6:33 AM, Mark Atherton wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9t1GFVbhU
> 
> What happens when you try and control a 22A electric water heater (presumably 120+120V in Canada) using a cheap 25A solid state relay.
> 
> Personally, I would have used at least a 40A name-brand unit (Pansonic etc) attached to an aluminum heat-sink.
> 
> Qudos for him having the guts to publish his misstate, this could have burnt his house down...
> 
> -Mark