Posted on 04/12/2023 12:13:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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I like a book myself.
I think it is about $100.
Building codes for safety are fine.
Wish list building requirements lead to problems for human beings.
Poor Violet. Badly Burnt Resistors On Your Ground Bus Void General Warranty.
Same thing (and much worse) in India.
you forgot run get some now
Maybe they won't miss a few people here and there. Just float them down the Ganges River.
A standard 15A-1P or 20A-1P breaker is $4-$5.
AFCI takes that to $50-$60! Times the number of receptacle and lighting circuits in your house. It gets into some money.
Not true. Only one Life fault detector / breaker needed per circuit.
Maybe that is what it is supposed to be but after the Marshall fire In Colorado many people were under insured and when the new electrical standards especially the mandatory of $30,000 electrical charging stations many found that they lost their home but it was impossible to rebuild. Colorado is number four in electrical vehicles at just over 2%. This is ridiculous.
Resistor colors. Learned that one in Tech Elec 1 back in 9th grade.
OK?
That price is fairly recent. I’ve collected materials for a small project, I bought 5-6 a few months ago.
And you need one AFCI breaker per circuit.
My statement holds.
Have you ever stamped any electrical work?
In my engineering career I designed a lot of industrial equipment that relied on the NEC. Never saw anything that didn’t make good sense. My retirement BOL needed rewiring (originally built 1946 - they didn’t even run any grounds at all). Despite being so rural that we still have no building codes, I followed the NEC anyway. Cost me nothing to do it right.
Now, if you want to talk about low-flow toilets and Energy-Star dishwashers and laundry machines, I’m ready.
You own words.
I have no tolerance for that!
When I was working as an Air Force contractor supporting an upgrade to the E-3 AWACS we had a meeting with about 25-35 people in attendance. We were writing the equipment specification and I asked for help with electrical power interface requirements. No one there was much help. One person figuratively threw a 1,000 page specification at me. Which I could have included by reference, punting the problem to the equipment developer. (Who had a lot of experience on the E-3.) I never felt comfortable specifying something I did not understand.
Right! And I learned that resistors don't work any more after you let the smoke out of them.
Ooo-kay?
Low flow toilets. Don’t get me started. Over the last 30 years I have had about seven. They use half the water per flush. The problem is that I never had one that I did not need to flush three times. Some required four. The refill rate was so slow that I have wasted a LOT of time standing and waiting to do the next flush. Oh how I wish I could give the greenies that pushed this a head swirly from flush 1 through flush 4.
Same for building codes, use them quite a bit. The pretty much ingrained in my head though
great sex...
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