Barbqranch
Senior Member
- Location
- Arcata, CA
- Occupation
- Plant maintenance electrician Semi-retired
Just curious, does anybody recall approx. when they started requiring the ground screws on switch yokes? Please don't spend any time looking it up, but if you remember that would be nice.
The reason I am asking is here in the plant break room, there were some lights that haven't worked in the 2 1/2 years I have been here. Finally took time to fix, and someone apparently had to replace a 3 way switch. Well, the on-off switch they had had 3 screws, so that must work. Lights didn't work, but apparently nobody could figure out why. Fortunately nobody got hurt from the switch plate screws that were hot.
These are the trouble shooting calls I like to figure out, but it also makes my ears smoke thinking how stupid and dangerous it is.
The reason I am asking is here in the plant break room, there were some lights that haven't worked in the 2 1/2 years I have been here. Finally took time to fix, and someone apparently had to replace a 3 way switch. Well, the on-off switch they had had 3 screws, so that must work. Lights didn't work, but apparently nobody could figure out why. Fortunately nobody got hurt from the switch plate screws that were hot.
These are the trouble shooting calls I like to figure out, but it also makes my ears smoke thinking how stupid and dangerous it is.