paul
Senior Member
- Location
- Snohomish, WA
I'm on this job for the last two days moving two card entry setups from the 3rd floor to the 1st. I breaker trips yesterday and I get asked what I did to cause it to trip. I tell them I haven't done anything with AC power in their building.
Today, it happens two more times and I get the blame for it. Again, I let them know I have not done anything with power. However, since this is a new customer, I climb off my ladder and investigate. The lady tells me they never had a problem before I started doing my work there yesterday, so I must be the culprit. I realize it's futile to again explain I'm working on a low voltage system and not messing with the line voltage, cept for my charger that was plugged into the hall receptacle. And that was still working.
I ask her which breaker it is the keeps tripping. She shows me. I pull the cover off and place my amp meter on the circuit. Hmmm...23.5 amps on a 20 amp circuit. Ya think it could be overloaded? So I head in and see which cubicles were effected. Three guys there with their 3 computers running and two 21" monitors apiece (each at 2.5 amps). They also have a printer, but it's inkjet so that's minimal, and a CD burning setup that burns 6 CD's at a time. I pull the BPI out from the wall to see that it has a 5-circuit setup, but is only fed with one circuit. The circuit also feeds other receptacles in the room. They just removed one receptacle and added 6 cubicles to it. NIIIIICE.
HA...add some more &%$@! circuits to your doggone cubicles and quit blaming me! One of the guys who was losing power later told me later that normally the three of them rotate their shifts, except yesterday and today. Impeccable timing.
UGH...sometimes ignorance can really tick a fellow off.
Today, it happens two more times and I get the blame for it. Again, I let them know I have not done anything with power. However, since this is a new customer, I climb off my ladder and investigate. The lady tells me they never had a problem before I started doing my work there yesterday, so I must be the culprit. I realize it's futile to again explain I'm working on a low voltage system and not messing with the line voltage, cept for my charger that was plugged into the hall receptacle. And that was still working.
I ask her which breaker it is the keeps tripping. She shows me. I pull the cover off and place my amp meter on the circuit. Hmmm...23.5 amps on a 20 amp circuit. Ya think it could be overloaded? So I head in and see which cubicles were effected. Three guys there with their 3 computers running and two 21" monitors apiece (each at 2.5 amps). They also have a printer, but it's inkjet so that's minimal, and a CD burning setup that burns 6 CD's at a time. I pull the BPI out from the wall to see that it has a 5-circuit setup, but is only fed with one circuit. The circuit also feeds other receptacles in the room. They just removed one receptacle and added 6 cubicles to it. NIIIIICE.
HA...add some more &%$@! circuits to your doggone cubicles and quit blaming me! One of the guys who was losing power later told me later that normally the three of them rotate their shifts, except yesterday and today. Impeccable timing.
UGH...sometimes ignorance can really tick a fellow off.
