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"What Sherlock did this?"
I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite
experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. Andy |
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WhiteTea77581 wrote:
I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. Andy 1. 33, 66, and almost anything else is believable if you don't know how to use a voltmeter. Just poking the leads in the outlet will easily get bizarre readings. 2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. |
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2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. So, what did you tell your insurance company when you had the electrical fire? Andy |
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WhiteTea77581 wrote:
2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. So, what did you tell your insurance company when you had the electrical fire? That it was the altitude. No... wait... that was the nosebleed. Let me think... |
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On Jul 3, 8:30*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
WhiteTea77581 wrote: 2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. So, what did you tell your insurance company when you had the electrical fire? That it was the altitude. No... wait... that was the nosebleed. Let me think... When I wa kid I used bell wire to get electicity to my tree house. I tworked well for a lamp and radio. It didnt work so well when we tried to use a hot plate. Jimmie |
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:55:19 -0500, in alt.home.repair, "HeyBub"
wrote: WhiteTea77581 wrote: I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. At work, one of our computer labs was recently remodeled and got these nifty new computer tables with built-in power and network outlets. On one of them, our professional commercial electrical contractor managed to connect the table's ground wire to the hot supply.... -- Due to Usenet spam, emailed replies must pass an intelligence test: if you want me to read your reply, be sure to include this line of text in your email, but remove this line before sending, otherwise my filters will delete your email with all due prejudice. Thanks! |
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On Jul 3, 2:28*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:55:19 -0500, in alt.home.repair, "HeyBub" wrote: WhiteTea77581 wrote: I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. At work, one of our computer labs was recently remodeled and got these nifty new computer tables with built-in power and network outlets. *On one of them, our professional commercial electrical contractor managed to connect the table's ground wire to the hot supply.... -- Due to Usenet spam, emailed replies must pass an intelligence test: if you want me to read your reply, be sure to include this line of text in your email, but remove this line before sending, otherwise my filters will delete your email with all due prejudice. *Thanks! Many years ago in rural territory here hard drawn twisted copper pair telephone drop wire (about 12 or 14 AWG) was a favourite for 'a couple of lights in the barn'. Then telco started using copper coated steel drop wires. It didn't like a couple of amps for two 100 watts light bulbs! One story is that it burnt off spectacularly! But have never bothered to work out the resistance, voltage drop and/ or current carrying capacity of say, one hundred feet of steel drop wire to see if there could be any credence to the story! |
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Hotwire from a hotplate?
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "JIMMIE" wrote in message news:cecbccaf-82a5-4938-8a32- When I wa kid I used bell wire to get electicity to my tree house. I tworked well for a lamp and radio. It didnt work so well when we tried to use a hot plate. Jimmie |
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"What Sherlock did this?"
"HeyBub" wrote in message ... WhiteTea77581 wrote: I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. Andy 1. 33, 66, and almost anything else is believable if you don't know how to use a voltmeter. Just poking the leads in the outlet will easily get bizarre readings. 2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. Actually, "telephone wire" should not be used for 120 volt wiring. The "protection scheme" for US wiring is that the entrance panel circuit breakers server to protect the WIRE against a fault. In the worse possible scenario, you could have a long loop of #22 'telephone wire' that developes a fault at the far end. The fault would only create, say, a 15 or 20 Amp current which isn't enough to 'trip' a breaker but is enough to nicely heat up the 'telephone wire' and set adjacent wood on fire. It might be marginally safe to use "telephone wire" if the wire is protected by a fuse or CB to a reasonable current on the order of 1 amp or less. Otherwise, the "textbook" solution is to power the load from a 24 or 12 volt transformer that contains within some current limiting feature. |
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On Jul 6, 2:39*am, "John Gilmer" wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message ... WhiteTea77581wrote: I thought it might be entertaining to see posts of your favorite experience with someone else's "Handiwork." Two of my favorites. 1. My brother and I found voltages of 33 and 66 volts at a house that someone was fixing up to sell. 2. Telephone wire used to wire up a fluorescent light in a restaurant. Andy 1. 33, 66, and almost anything else is believable if you don't know how to use a voltmeter. Just poking the leads in the outlet will easily get bizarre readings. 2. Telephone wire may very well be sufficient. Depends on the power requirements of the florescent lamp. I've used bell wire to power 9 watt porch lights. Works swell. Actually, "telephone wire" should not be used for 120 volt wiring. The "protection scheme" for US wiring is that the entrance panel circuit breakers server to protect the WIRE against a fault. In the worse possible scenario, you could have a long loop of #22 'telephone wire' that developes a fault at the far end. The fault would only create, say, a 15 or 20 Amp current which isn't enough to 'trip' a breaker but is enough to nicely heat up the 'telephone wire' and set adjacent wood on fire. It might be marginally safe to use "telephone wire" if the wire is protected by a fuse or CB to a reasonable current on the order of 1 amp or less. So, how many house fires have you had? :-) Andy |
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