?? P Break

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mstrlucky74

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Anyone know what this power break is. They shown furniture with a poke thru. Not sure what is meant by the power break.
 

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victor.cherkashi

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I never saw this wording in my 7 years in electrical design field. Some architect have funny language to describe engineer's items

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sameguy

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Do you have your spec book?
Is there a listing on the print showing symbols?
Is there cut sheets for the furniture?
PB to me is a push button; time to RFI.
 

GoldDigger

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I would say that it is a receptacle into which the modular furniture system can be plugged. (That is why coordination with the furniture vendor is called out.)
Rather than Power Break, I would use the word disconnect for this feature.
 

infinity

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Are you sure that it's power break and not power box? I could see this as the transition point between the furniture system and the branch circuits feeding it.
 

JoeStillman

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West Chester, PA
I would imagine it means a break in the furniture wiring harness - everything past that point in the electrified furniture is on a different circuit - or not wired at all.

I find that architects throw those kinds of terms around like they actually mean something. They look at me cross-eyed when I ask them how many circuits they need for a five-wire system. "How can you not know how many circuits?! I already told you, it's five-wire!?"
 

ggunn

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When I was a DJ in a nightclub back in the 70's, whenever I needed a P Break I would just put on Nights in White Satin. :D
 
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