A BIG Thanks!

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It's 4 o'clock on Thanksgiving day. The turkey is roasting in the electric oven. The dressing and squash are coming along nicely in the electric roaster. A couple of things are cooking on the electric cooktop. Pumpkin pies are cooling in the electric refridgerator. Game is on TV. Electric lights are on all over the house. The vacuum cleaner is waiting its turn.

I'm giving thanks for the eletrician who wired this home 28 years ago. I don't know who he was, and I doubt that he's reading this forum, so all you guys and gals can share my apprecian.

THANKS!

Jim
 
G0049 said:
It's 4 o'clock on Thanksgiving day. The turkey is roasting in the electric oven. The dressing and squash are coming along nicely in the electric roaster. A couple of things are cooking on the electric cooktop. Pumpkin pies are cooling in the electric refridgerator. Game is on TV. Electric lights are on all over the house. The vacuum cleaner is waiting its turn.
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Jim, could you go outside and tell us if your meter base feels warm to the touch?
 
Your vacuum can be thankful that the house is so old and there will be no AFCI problems when you go to use it.:D:D:D
 
Jim W in Tampa said:
His was Tom Edison but he was not licensed.
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While your thanks is appreciated by all of us electricians, we all look to Nikola Tesla as the father of modern electricity.
Mr. Thomas Edison did everything he could to thwart the innovative thinking and accomplishments Nikola Tesla gave to the world.
So I say today, thanks Mr. Tesla.
 
John Valdes said:
While your thanks is appreciated by all of us electricians, we all look to Nikola Tesla as the father of modern electricity.
Mr. Thomas Edison did everything he could to thwart the innovative thinking and accomplishments Nikola Tesla gave to the world.
So I say today, thanks Mr. Tesla.
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I would be hard pressed to put either one of these guys ahead of the other. Edison's lab turned out an incredible amount of helpful products and Tesla was no doubt some sort of mad genius. :smile:

We were lucky to have had both ot them. :smile:
 
G0049 said:
It's 4 o'clock on Thanksgiving day. The turkey is roasting in the electric oven. The dressing and squash are coming along nicely in the electric roaster. A couple of things are cooking on the electric cooktop. Pumpkin pies are cooling in the electric refridgerator. Game is on TV. Electric lights are on all over the house. The vacuum cleaner is waiting its turn.

I'm giving thanks for the eletrician who wired this home 28 years ago. I don't know who he was, and I doubt that he's reading this forum, so all you guys and gals can share my apprecian.

THANKS!

Jim
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I can't tell what time it is on Thanksgiving day because the AFCI tripped the BC with the clock on it. The Turkey stopped roasting when the OCPD got too hot from the conductors being undersized; The electrician put the range on with the cooktop oven and didn't allow enough on his "tap" rule and that's gone off on overload; one of the SABC's has tripped twice so far since the refrig is permitted on the circuit;

.....and everytime I go down to reset the breakers I can't help but see the OKAY sticker on the panel cover!!! The local 3rd party inspector is sure thankful that the codes department doesn't have the funding to enable its' "Oversight" division! :D
 
wbalsam1 said:
I can't tell what time it is on Thanksgiving day because the AFCI tripped the BC with the clock on it. The Turkey stopped roasting when the OCPD got too hot from the conductors being undersized; The electrician put the range on with the cooktop oven and didn't allow enough on his "tap" rule and that's gone off on overload; one of the SABC's has tripped twice so far since the refrig is permitted on the circuit;

.....and everytime I go down to reset the breakers I can't help but see the OKAY sticker on the panel cover!!! The local 3rd party inspector is sure thankful that the codes department doesn't have the funding to enable its' "Oversight" division! :D
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Nice-- I like it. :D
 
wbalsam1 said:
I can't tell what time it is on Thanksgiving day because the AFCI tripped the BC with the clock on it. The Turkey stopped roasting when the OCPD got too hot from the conductors being undersized; The electrician put the range on with the cooktop oven and didn't allow enough on his "tap" rule and that's gone off on overload; one of the SABC's has tripped twice so far since the refrig is permitted on the circuit;

.....and everytime I go down to reset the breakers I can't help but see the OKAY sticker on the panel cover!!! The local 3rd party inspector is sure thankful that the codes department doesn't have the funding to enable its' "Oversight" division! :D
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What, and why have you let this happen in your house ?
 
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