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Steve Turner[_3_]

On 9/6/2010 12:09 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:46:07 -0500, Steve Turner
wrote:

On 9/5/2010 3:22 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
How many homeowners know what circuits each receptacle is part of?

Speaking of that, why in the hell don't the codes call for some sort of
standard labeling scheme so that a person could read a number off the front of
the switch or outlet and trace it straight back to the very breaker in the
panel to which it's connected?

How would that prevent a fire or electrocution?

If you could tear yourself away from the endless and pointless thread leading
up to my minor diversion (which is what I tried to do by snipping away all the
other context), try picturing the situation where the homeowner is able to TELL
(quickly and easily) exactly which breaker cuts the power to the outlet he
wants to fiddle with (without manually tripping every other friggin breaker in
the box and hitting the outlet with a meter just to find out what SHOULD have
been documented at installation) so that when he sticks the screwdriver in
there he doesn't get zapped? I can't tell you many times I've deferred the
reworking of an outlet because I didn't want to accidentally power down the
internet gateway or reset all the damn clocks in the house...

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