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charlie b said:
Jim, I think the intent was to show which switch controlled which light. My method would achieve that, for any number of lights, with only one trip to the attic.

No takers, huh? :)
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Charlie b

It was just a joke.
Jim
 
I think it's better that they just hum. If the flourescent lights ever start talking to me I'm hanging up my apron and calling it quits.
 
charlie b said:
I know a way to successfully label any number of switches in an installation of this nature, and with only one trip.

Let us say you have five lights in the attic, controlled by five switches in the basement. Make it ten or fifty, if you prefer. For George’s sake, I will clarify that each switch controls one of the lights. Start in the attic, do something, then go to the basement and correctly label the switches. Then, without returning to the attic, collect your fee from the homeowner and go on to the next job.

Any takers?

You should all know what the “something’ is that I am referring to, since this is part of your normal daily work. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean? Say no more!)
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ummm, send an apprentice with a radio in the attic, let him tell you which one lights up. Dunno about the last part of your post, tho... "...normal, daily work." Best part is "you" never have to go in the attic.
 
The video camera solution would work. But it has the disadvantage of having to charge the homeowner for the camera, since you won?t be allowed to return to the attic to retrieve it. The apprentice with a radio solution would also work. But it has the disadvantage of having to get a new apprentice each time you are hired for this type of job, since the rules don?t let you do more than one trip to the attic and one to the main floor, so the apprentice would be stuck in the attic.

Actually, my solution is very simple. You go to the attic, find the desk that has the drawer in which the original engineered plans are stored. You remove the plans, look at the engineer?s notations for which fixture is controlled by which switch, then go downstairs and label the switches. We all know, of course, that the electrical contractor will have built the home?s electrical system in precise conformance with the instructions provided by the engineer.
 
An Idea. Only one trip to the attic. 1st, go to the attic and install a different size of light bulb in each fixture. Then remember what bulb went into each fixture and location. Then go to the basement and take a amp reading on each switch and this show let you know how to label the switches.
Jim
 
rcarroll said:
Jim, I wouldn't red tag the job anymore than an ec would put attic light switches in the basement. Hence the green smiley. Besides, I'm an inspector. I can do what I want. In my town, it's easy to BS a few people. Ron
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Love to see you in our town.I have fun with inspectors.Sometimes they win sometimes they dont.Not at all above setting them up for a fall.LOL
 
charlie b said:
We all know, of course, that the electrical contractor will have built the home?s electrical system in precise conformance with the instructions provided by the engineer.
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I thought you said the house hadn't burned down yet...?


:D :D :D :D
 
Geez, I never saw *that* coming. Are you suggesting that the as-built and the engineering plans are congruent?

My gosh!

Charlie, thanks for the blindside. I may never recover.

Dan
 
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