oops.
oops.
If I was management I would have you check all of them every month like the instructions say.
I was working in a factory replacing ballasts, All the ballasts and lamps. It was a retrofit. The place had giant stamping equipment. LOTS of stamping equipment. It was so loud your chest vibrated while on the floor. 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Made widgets. Millions of them a day.
Got the last ballast in, it was in a storage area, the mezzanine. Had a pinched wire in the fixture. My helper does the ol turn the switch on motion with his arm. Its so loud there is no verbal communication, just hand motions. There was the switch by the stairwell. There goes my hand to the switch. Its like it was yesterday. Click!
Every light in the place goes off. Every piece of equipment goes down, All the lines, Every compressor winds down. People fall out of the offices, cafeteria, lavatories, everywhere. Stunned faces of machinists sorters, managers, QC personnel, everyone in the dim glow of the E lights. I can remember it like it was yesterday. Burned into the back of my head. Frantically trying to turn on those lights by the stair well. click click click click. No go.
That's when I read up on mains over 800 amp being GFCI protected.
Don'T ya think it would have been better to protect the circuits?
No question, GFCI the outlet.
