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Shoutout to the electrician in Tucson who said my zip tie habit was a fire hazard
I had every cable under my desk cinched tight with zip ties about every 3 inches, and he pointed out that if a cable gets hot it has no room to breathe or move, which is a real risk. Now I use velcro straps with slack and honestly it looks a bit messier, so I keep going back and forth on whether a clean look is worth the safety trade. Do you all keep your bundles loose for heat reasons, or is tight and tidy fine in your book?
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wesley_hart7d ago
Three inches apart is wild. That's not cable management, that's basically strapping a heater shut. I get wanting the clean look, but heat has to go somewhere and a tight bundle just traps it in the middle where you can't see it. The messy velcro thing bugs me too, but a fire is a lot messier than some slack in your cables. I'd leave the velcro loose and stop worrying about how it looks under a desk nobody sees.
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