[Build] electrical project suggestion

[Rachel McConnell]

Totally agreed.  I'll be at 2169 tonight; my plan has been to improve
the elevator button fix but if by some chance that goes quickly, I'll
work on circuit mapping.

Rachel

jim wrote:
>    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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