Packhorse
Flashlight Enthusiast
I had an incident with my can light over the weekend.
I dropped the cannister and saved it from crashing into the ground by lifting the light head. Obviously putting alot of strain on the cable and glands. After this the light worked intermittently.
The problem was a broken wire in the light head where the cable goes through the gland.
Now the cable itself had been squashed to half its normal diameter where it goes through the gland and this may have contributed. I had obviously over tightened the gland although I hand only done it up hand tight ( this was done about 2 weeks ago after shortening the cable a few cm's.) Admittedly I had re tightened it several times as the cable settled after a few days.
The cable is a plastic one rated at 10 bar with no strain relief.
So the question is did the repetitive hand tightening contribute to the weakening of the wires? How tight should a gland be?
I dropped the cannister and saved it from crashing into the ground by lifting the light head. Obviously putting alot of strain on the cable and glands. After this the light worked intermittently.
The problem was a broken wire in the light head where the cable goes through the gland.
Now the cable itself had been squashed to half its normal diameter where it goes through the gland and this may have contributed. I had obviously over tightened the gland although I hand only done it up hand tight ( this was done about 2 weeks ago after shortening the cable a few cm's.) Admittedly I had re tightened it several times as the cable settled after a few days.
The cable is a plastic one rated at 10 bar with no strain relief.
So the question is did the repetitive hand tightening contribute to the weakening of the wires? How tight should a gland be?
