[Build] electrical project suggestion

[Shannon Lee]

Hey All,

Last night some enterprising souls whose name I did not catch undertook to
begin mapping the "rear" sub-panel; to that end, the rear panel has been
labeled, and some of the wall sockets labeled with the appropriate circuit
IDs.  Those which have been labeled are marked on the map on the wall.

There are a couple of testers, so if someone wants to continue the mapping
it should be a relatively straightforward process:  you work in a two-person
team, one plugging a tester into a socket while the other flips breakers
until you find the one that causes the tester to stop registering current.
Then you label the socket with tape & sharpie, and also record it on the
map.

It's kind of a fun game of hide-and-seek, anybody who finds themselves at
2169 and doesn't have anything better to do should feel free to give it a
try!

--S

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:40 AM, jim <jim at well.com> 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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Shannon Lee
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