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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buck" data-source="post: 8759330" data-attributes="member: 591582">If it was a loose connection, what happens is you have a massive high resistance spot where the wires or just a few strands are barely making contact, and under high loads, that acts as a pinched wire.You get a massive resistance spike there where the wires are barely touching the metal, and it's like putting a tiny nozzle on a fire hose.  That electricity is concentrated and a ton of amperage is being forced into a tiny amount of wire, causing massive energy density, which causes massive amounts of heat (just like a pinched wire).</blockquote>

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