Trade Terms that should go away

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How bout this one "go kill the juice to the circuit"................this is electrical work, we're not squeezing oranges at the Tropicana plant :grin: Another one that I chuckle at is from non-electricians when they say stuff like "the current is 120". I guess those are the same people that have the short that needs to be fixed when the light bulb burns out.
 
High on my list would be "water bond" for the GEC running to a 250.52(A)(1) electrode.

Bundled, until it gets defined in a way to suit everybody (yeah right).

The "Equipment Grounding Conductor" is definutely suited for the dumpster.

Can't think of too many others.
 
How bout

from construction sites "hey Sparky"

Or from customers when I quiz them about the issue with their power, basic answer no matter what the promblem "we had a surge" or the next one
"the lights went out we might have a harmonics problem from a surge".

Then I'd like to figure out how to stop the line "What did you do" just because the lights are out and I am on the job does not mean I did a durn thing.
 
Actually I don't mind being called Sparky, and I am friends with most of the plumbers.
 
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Not that these terms should go away but how about when indicating lights mean two different things. Like in the motor control world, Green lights mean motor running (circuit closed),red means motor stopped (circuit open).In switch yards, green means circuit open,red means circuit closed.
Rick
 
No/nc

No/nc

I do a lot of motor control work, and other PC board related stuff. Way back in my Solid State Electronics classes(when we learned how to design circuits with and solder in the funny new things called transistors), I was taught that the NC/NO designation was for the device in its normal, or "at rest" state. It is used for spring loaded or relay switches, and is not dependant on use of the device. Thus a regular wall or toggle switch has no normal about it, it is on or off. But you can have a safety limit switch that is normaly open, but held closed with a coil. It functions as a normaly closed (the machine operates), but if you trip the relay it opens (its default state) and it shuts down. A twist timer would be normaly open, turn the knob to close the circuit. Just my $.02
 
Minuteman said:
That seems to come from plumbers most of all. I have told a few that they spill more water than I do electrons, and nobody calls them "drip".
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I like that "HEY DRIPPY"! I'm going to start using that one.
 
Ronald,
A light switch does not require a seperate energy source to change it's state.
I work with motors and controls too. Shoot me a message some time.
 
nc / no

nc / no

How about you guys understanding what normal means in the electrical field.

Normal is something (ie a Coil or spdt switch) with out power or Not energized.

We're not reinventing the wheel here.
 
Next time your called "Sparky" by a plumber - Call him a "Poop Chaser" and he'll never call you a sparky again. Of course you may need to drink your beer through a straw for awhile!
 
See what I started.
Charlie B and I would like to see Sub-Panel changed to Surface-Panel
We are both exnavy surface sailors. The sub guys, Tubers, call us targets.

How do you find the rules for a sub panel? The most overlooked article in the NEC is 100. Use 100 to find out what rules apply.

My old ship, the Bainbridge, CNG-25, has been "recycled". Charlies, the Nimitz, is still steaming. Both were full of sub panels.
 
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See what I started.
Charlie B and I would like to see Sub-Panel changed to Surface-Panel
We are both exnavy surface sailors. The sub guys, Tubers, call us targets.

How do you find the rules for a sub panel? The most overlooked article in the NEC is 100. Use 100 to find out what rules apply.

My old ship, the Bainbridge, CNG-25, has been "recycled". Charlies, the Nimitz, is still steaming. Both were full of sub panels.
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Its must have been quite the way to get around. Is that you waving?
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Two things that bother me:
1) People younger than 70 that still say "110" and "220"
2) The common term for the place where you make up a motor termination. (please don't say it here, it will be deleted :D)
 
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