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GoldDigger said:
How about "the office that used to be Paul's"
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Life is stranger than fiction.
Was doing an assessment in a wire manufacturing facility, one circuit was labeled 'Paul's office'. Out in the manufacturing area, there is a painted outline on the floor complete with a large sign "Pauls office". The only part of the story I got was that the company had created this permanent memorial to a deceased employee.
 
I try to label a panel by the area it serves in relation to the house { as in: back corner bedroom }.
Because if the house is sold, then it will no longer be "Pete's office" ! :lol:
 
Non dwellings becomes harder to label sometimes. I have a small school I do work for that I wish they would go to a numbering system for their rooms. First grade markings on panelboards after several years may no longer be first grade, but room 105 hopefully still remains room 105 no matter what it is used for several years later.
 
Um, just in case, I was joking about that Janie's room and Paul's office thing. It seems a couple of people (who shall not be named again) felt the need to correct me citing the code.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
I have no idea what you mean. what is a dead front-- dead front gfci but I doubt that is what you are addressing.

Do you mean panel directory?
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"Where plug fuses and fuseholders are used, they shall be tamper-resistant Type S, enclosed in dead-front fuse panelboards. Electrical distribution panelboards containing circuit breakers shall also be dead-front type."


The term is not used as much these days.
 
The college I went to was built on a hill. The science building was near the top. They added on to it, and re-numbered all the rooms. Then they built a biology building down the hill and connected them w/ a ramp and decided to re-number again. Never fixed the elevator buttons or the panelboards.:?
 
Barbqranch said:
The college I went to was built on a hill. The science building was near the top. They added on to it, and re-numbered all the rooms. Then they built a biology building down the hill and connected them w/ a ramp and decided to re-number again. Never fixed the elevator buttons or the panelboards.:?
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much easier solution would have been to keep room numbers in individual buildings and add a building prefix to the numbering system, and is sort of common to do that. Usually the building has someone's name on it that was a contributor to something on the campus so they just use that name as the prefix. You could have Smith 101, and in another building Jones 101.
 
kwired said:
Unfortunately I have also ran into buildings that have been moved, and "north bedroom" is no longer on the north side.
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This is likely a daily concern in tornado alley. :roll:

I have taken pains to label as per print, Room 145 or what have you, just to have the granolas call it "Pikes Peak Room" or something. You just can't win them all, that's why they make circuit tracers.
 
George Stolz said:
This is likely a daily concern in tornado alley. :roll:

I have taken pains to label as per print, Room 145 or what have you, just to have the granolas call it "Pikes Peak Room" or something. You just can't win them all, that's why they make circuit tracers.
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I guess I live in tornado alley but not at the grand central station of tornado alley either - but I seldom think of such things.

Neighbor down the road lived in a mobile home for years on a farm place. Finally built a real house a few years ago, but temporarily moved their mobile home as new home was going to be in the place where mobile home sat for years. When they moved it they turned it 90 degrees and I recall him mentioning how messed up that was having what used to face south now facing east. People driving down the public road were now on the side the private drive was on and every time a vehicle drove by at night it was "who is here now", and of course the sun was on wrong side of the house at the wrong time of day.
 
kwired said:
I guess I live in tornado alley but not at the grand central station of tornado alley either - but I seldom think of such things.

Neighbor down the road lived in a mobile home for years on a farm place. Finally built a real house a few years ago, but temporarily moved their mobile home as new home was going to be in the place where mobile home sat for years. When they moved it they turned it 90 degrees and I recall him mentioning how messed up that was having what used to face south now facing east. People driving down the public road were now on the side the private drive was on and every time a vehicle drove by at night it was "who is here now", and of course the sun was on wrong side of the house at the wrong time of day.
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Wow, thanks. I am now going to stop using east, west, north, south, upstairs or downstairs as indicators because you never no when the building will be rotated in any direction.
 
iwire said:
Wow, thanks. I am now going to stop using east, west, north, south, upstairs or downstairs as indicators because you never no when the building will be rotated in any direction.
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Upstairs/downstairs still works unless you have a chance of turning the building upside down.:)
 
GEN REC is electricians code for...

GEN REC is electricians code for...

"GEN REC" is electricians code for... " I don't Know but everything is working" and don't have time
 
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