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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:09:41 GMT, wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:30:40 GMT, (Steven Shelikoff) wrote:

On 19 Feb 2004 20:23:18 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

To start with, aluminum
is not that great of a conductor.

aluminum is in fact a pretty good conductor. Not as good as copper or gold,
but still pretty good. Cheap car jumper cables are often aluminum.

Yeah, they used to use it in house wiring also until the CPSC reported
that houses with aluminum wiring were 55 times more likely to have an
electrical fire than copper wired houses.

Bye bye aluminum wiring (in most home applications). It has only a
little more than half the conductivity of copper and really is not that
great of a conductor. It's ok, but I wouldn't use it for anything
important.

Apparently you don't have any idea why aluminum wiring in homes was a fire
hazard?

Yeah, I do. It was mostly due to the connections. But the ability to
make good connections is something that I would expect a great conductor
to be able to do. If you can't connect to it, it's not so great.

Steve