Showing posts with label Electricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electricity. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Long Weekend, Long Wires, Long Post
Some photos from the long weekend activities here at Highlands Bangor.
Fenchurch's friend Babelfish spent the weekend. She and Fenchurch and Zaphod raked and hauled leaves and created what may become the biggest leaf compost heap on the eastern seaboard. It's as tall as the fence, and the yard isn't finished yet.
The end result was lots of bare dirt, so please focus your attention on the area of purple snow drops.
Also Trillian made a fantastic lamb dinner for Easter Sunday. (He is risen...)
And on Monday we moved the work indoors.
Zaphod DID get his joist sistered.
And the new electrical panels floated.
And much wire pulled through holes. (Zaphod generously cleaned out the space behind the existing panels before it was necessary for Fenchurch to investigate the inside.)
If you are really bored, or really supportive, you can watch us unbox a new panel!
Fenchurch's friend Babelfish spent the weekend. She and Fenchurch and Zaphod raked and hauled leaves and created what may become the biggest leaf compost heap on the eastern seaboard. It's as tall as the fence, and the yard isn't finished yet.
While working along our overgrown cedar and lilacs, Zaphod found a t-shirt...
... and Fenchurch found dog poop! (Enough to half fill two contractor bags.)
Also Trillian made a fantastic lamb dinner for Easter Sunday. (He is risen...)
And on Monday we moved the work indoors.
Zaphod DID get his joist sistered.
And the new electrical panels floated.
And much wire pulled through holes. (Zaphod generously cleaned out the space behind the existing panels before it was necessary for Fenchurch to investigate the inside.)
If you are really bored, or really supportive, you can watch us unbox a new panel!
Saturday, February 25, 2017
The Book Says
Hangouts chat dings.
Zaphod: May I disconnect breaker 1.8 for about 5 minutes? will it cause any disruption?
Fenchurch: I'm on a conference call. Can it wait 20 minutes?
Zaphod: Yup. Let me know
Fenchurch: Thank you. Yes.
Zaphod: I've got some measuring I'm doing at the moment - drawing the third floor. Figured while I was up here I would put in the GFCI for the deicing cable.
Fenchurch: Ok.
Zaphod: So no rush.
Time passes.
Fenchurch: Everyone is still shouting. So..... more than 20 minutes.
Zaphod: haha. No worries, I realized I had never updated the third floor so I'm up here drawing it in
Fenchurch: Ok! I'm getting up for lunch.
Zaphod: Ok. I'll be quick anyway. Just an outlet change.
In real life, on the third floor.
Fenchurch: Whatcha doin'?
Zaphod, looking at two black insulated wires: I don't know which one of these is hot and which is neutral.
Fenchurch: Aren't the wires supposed to be marked so you can tell?
Zaphod: These are knob and tube. Maybe in a perfect world. Can you tell any difference?
Fenchurch, enthusiastically: I'm sure there's a way to tell. I'm pretty sure I read about it in that book. Hang on let me get it.
In the kitchen, while Fenchurch waits for the microwave.
Fenchurch, reading from Wiring a House, 5th Edition: The oldest wiring that you might see in a house is knob and tube. The wiring is still legal to use. The copper wires have a rubber coating and a single-cloth braid -- black for the hot wire and white for the neutral or return (most wire is so old and dirty that both colors look the same).
Pause.
Zaphod: I can figure it out.
Fenchurch: Please don't damage yourself or anything expensive.
Microwave dings.
Zaphod: May I disconnect breaker 1.8 for about 5 minutes? will it cause any disruption?
Fenchurch: I'm on a conference call. Can it wait 20 minutes?
Zaphod: Yup. Let me know
Fenchurch: Thank you. Yes.
Zaphod: I've got some measuring I'm doing at the moment - drawing the third floor. Figured while I was up here I would put in the GFCI for the deicing cable.
Fenchurch: Ok.
Zaphod: So no rush.
Time passes.
Fenchurch: Everyone is still shouting. So..... more than 20 minutes.
Zaphod: haha. No worries, I realized I had never updated the third floor so I'm up here drawing it in
Fenchurch: Ok! I'm getting up for lunch.
Zaphod: Ok. I'll be quick anyway. Just an outlet change.
In real life, on the third floor.
Fenchurch: Whatcha doin'?
Zaphod, looking at two black insulated wires: I don't know which one of these is hot and which is neutral.
Fenchurch: Aren't the wires supposed to be marked so you can tell?
Zaphod: These are knob and tube. Maybe in a perfect world. Can you tell any difference?
Fenchurch, enthusiastically: I'm sure there's a way to tell. I'm pretty sure I read about it in that book. Hang on let me get it.
In the kitchen, while Fenchurch waits for the microwave.
Fenchurch, reading from Wiring a House, 5th Edition: The oldest wiring that you might see in a house is knob and tube. The wiring is still legal to use. The copper wires have a rubber coating and a single-cloth braid -- black for the hot wire and white for the neutral or return (most wire is so old and dirty that both colors look the same).
Pause.
Zaphod: I can figure it out.
Fenchurch: Please don't damage yourself or anything expensive.
Microwave dings.
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