[raybbr]

China again.

[raybbr]

China’s products strike again.

[Arthur McGowan]

Thank you, Richard Hussein Nixon, for opening up China.

[blackdog]

Military gear used to have to comply with MIL-SPECS. I'm familiar with most of them for shipboard electricity and electronics and for some of them used by deployed troops for ground gear. The MIL SPECS cover things like potential to ground, which on most MIL SPECS is less than .05ma to ground. The problem is that in 1992 thru 1996, Clintonista's had the system of compliance to MIL-SPECS dropped from defense procurement procedures in favor of COTS (commercial off the shelf) or to EN Directives (Euro-Norms), both less costly and easily complied with.

It's situations like getting hard drives to operate in a shock and vibration environment on an Apache Attack Helicopter, or keeping the toilets from becoming missiles when a torpedo transfers it's energy into the deck of a ship.

It's the difference between a $50 coffee pot or a $500 coffee pot made to special MIL SPEC requirements. The $50 one puts enough broadband and narrow band noise into a missile guidance circuit that the missile couldn't keep on signal. It will also leak line to line and line to ground potential direct to the steel table it's sitting on.

[spunkets]

It doesn’t look like China is at fault. It looks like KBR inc and mil maintenance are the ones at fault.

[cva66snipe]

Why is China making anything related to our national defense? Why is the POTUS still in denial about quality and safety issues from items produced in China? Revoke their MFNTS NOW! Demand accountability.

[editor-surveyor]

Had someone not attempted to unnecessarily ground an isolated, and thus safe electrical system, the deaths would not have occurred.

Public power systems are grounded to protect from lightning. This is done by grounding the center tap of all transformers. This grounded center tap is the reason that our homes electrical systems have to have a ground too.

In the case of a small local power system, that does not transmit power over tall arial transmission lines, the ground is not needed, and is actually a dangerous mistake, since it creates an otherwise non existant voltage potential to whatever the system is grounded to. In this case, it obviously was the water piping system of the buildings; very foolish!