On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 3:38:53 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 3:03:14 PM UTC-5, E. Robinson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:21:26 -0800, trader_4 wrote:

Ohm's Law and all the rest of the basics don't apply to how to debug
what amounts to a fancy switch? Good grief.

The tricks that I was asking about, most people here didn't
even know themselves.


It's a trick for an EE to figure out that you could quickly debug
it by switching the wire from an adjacent breaker? I can understand
an EE not having knowledge of NEC requirements, etc, but come on, this
is very basic stuff.

I have a BSEE. I had it before I owned a house. I couldn't spell Romex until I
bought a house, realized that I needed more circuits and started learning
about home wiring, on my own and with help from this ng, 30+ years ago.

Just because one of the E's stands for "Electrical" it doesn't mean that
home wiring, car wiring, boat wiring, etc. is even mentioned, never mind
taught. I can't recall one course that would have led to me consider pulling the cover off of the breaker panel, loosening that little screw and pulling out the black wire to test a breaker.

Do you think a person with a Hydraulic Engineering degree automatically
knows how to sweat pipe? They learn all about water don't they?

Do you think that a person with Aerospace Engineering degree automatically
know hows to fix a jet engine? They learn all about air and space travel,
don't they?