[Build] electrical project suggestion
jim
jim at well.com
Thu Aug 20 18:40:32 UTC 2009
what do you think that we map the circuits at
this point? neil knows a lot about electricity and
could help if you don't know what to do.
mainly, figure out which receptacles, lights,
tracks, and any other electrical things are
connected to which circuits.
GOAL is to mark receptacles, switches, lamps,
pipes, etc. with numbers that correspond to sub-panel
circuit breakers.
sub-panels are
* Rear
* Front Primary
* Front Secondary
circuit breakers are installed in positions that
are numbered starting with 1 at the top left and
increasing down the left column then resuming count
at the top of the right column down to the bottom of
the right column.
some positions have two breakers in the single
position, so the top breaker is A and the bottom
breaker is B.
in the Rear sub-panel, in position 1 there's a dual
breaker R1A and R1B. in fact, if you look carefully at
that breaker you'll see it's really four breakers, R1A,
R1B that's tied to R2A, and R2B, all in a single
breaker case. So notice that a single case may occupy
more than one position. In the Front Primary sub-panel,
there are 12 positions down each side, so top left
position is FP1 and bottom right position is FP24.
for the Rear sub-panel and the Front Secondary
sub-panel, the mapping instructions will work.
because the Front Primary sub-panel is torn apart,
there's no way to tell which wires connect to breakers
in which positions. either skip mapping the Front
Primary sub-panel, or label each wire that sticks out
of the pipes that connect to the Front Primary sub-panel
and use that label name to mark pipes, receptacles,
switches, etc....
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