how do you work on your electrics if you can't turn them off ?
Sooo... its 12F outside, my power is out until tomorrow night...
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how do you work on your electrics if you can't turn them off ?
Lt.Dan
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Its a condo, you don't, the maintenence team probably does.
Sounds rubbish
Rider
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There are breakers for individual circuits, but no main breaker for the whole panel. But like Lt.Dan said, working on that stuff in a condo/apartment is usually frowned upon.
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No way. lol
Well I hope you all survive this cold snap, it got down to 17f here the other week , we all ran around with our hair on fire until it warmed up a bit
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It's 17F now.
It's a freakin heat wave. lol
It's a freakin heat wave. lol
Global warming
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Are Candles Bad for You? Myths and Potential Side Effects
Burning a candle releases chemicals, but can they pose a danger to your health? Here's what the science says about which candles are healthiest.
www.healthline.com
In 2003, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to ban the sale and manufacture of candles with lead wicks. They also banned the import of lead-containing candles from other countries.
Most candle manufacturers stopped using lead in their candles in the 1970s. Due to concerns that fumes could cause lead poisoning, especially in children, lead-containing candles were removed from the market.
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lol wtf why put lead in the wick omgAre Candles Bad for You? Myths and Potential Side Effects
Burning a candle releases chemicals, but can they pose a danger to your health? Here's what the science says about which candles are healthiest.
In 2003, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to ban the sale and manufacture of candles with lead wicks. They also banned the import of lead-containing candles from other countries.
Most candle manufacturers stopped using lead in their candles in the 1970s. Due to concerns that fumes could cause lead poisoning, especially in children, lead-containing candles were removed from the market.
good to know. thank you
Nope…
Well… here, the condominiums are individual units fed directly by a duke energy substation to each meter. As a licensed electrician, I can do whatever I can pull a permit for on my unit, but it requires a commercial permit because my unit is attached to 8 other units… so, a simple unlicensed homeowner of a condo cannot pull his own permit.
Believe you me, I will be replacing this meter base and panel, or at a minimum replacing the main panel with a modern MAIN BREAKER equipped one. And I will move it off the damn fence line, so it can be serviced!!!
The fence got raised to 6’ last year, and I never looked where they put the line… no WAY it is legal to have it blocking the meter and service panel like this…
No, the power was returned at 6:30 last night, and the house warmed up above 61F by 10pm. It’s a balmy 20F outside, and My heat pump system is keeping it around 70 in here.
… yup… not gonna mess with those in this weather. And they still wouldn’t power the house with no way to connect legally to the main panel.
Legal, schmegal. Nothing a few extension cords and some wire nuts can't fix, right? ?
This old wives trick of candles in clay pots resurfaces every Winter no matter how many times it is debunked. BTU's are BTU's and candles put out a set amount. Clay, thermal mass storage, oil filled radiators, copper plates, ceramics and other hyped heater designs are simply traps for gullible people to spend money on.
You want to stay warm when it is cold out you need insulation. The idea is to reduce thermal transfer. Depending on material used you will get a heat transfer rate that needs to be replaced by BTU's added. It is a math equation. No magic involved.
One question I have about these types of setups is there is not a common busbar for the breakers to connect to as we do in the US. Do they simply daisy chain with wire all the separate circuits?
ETA: Did some googling and I see there are availble screw on bus bars of different configuration you can get that handle a daisy chain style hookup. Not as robust as a big solid busbar our CB panels in the US use. Interesting how countries do this stuff different.
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amazing how variable it is considering it's the same problem all over the world, but very different solutions
100amp copper bus bar at the bottom, they come in one big strip and then you cut them to size
The breakers are on the live side
Then two separate negative blocks (in blue) at the top , one for each of the RCDs
If you're interested this is the guy to watch. Quite possibly THE most boring man in the UK but he knows his stuff
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Nobody said it increased BTU's. They just heat up and give off radiant heat.
No different than the reflectors they place on radiant space heaters, propane heaters, shop heaters etc.
The reflector/radiant surface does not help heat the air but they give off radiant heat that heats other surfaces.
Sounds good but other than directing heat it doesn't change anything. A hand warmer can warm your hands but it will not heat a room. Heat transfer occurs when you have a Delta T between one medium and another. Heat flows towards cold. Teh modes of heat transfer are conductive convective and radiation.
From: https://www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/nres633/Pages/Unit2/Section-B-Energy-Transfer.aspx
https://www3.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/nres633/Pages/Unit2/Section-B-Energy-Transfer.aspx
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Yes it does. It changes conductive heat to radiant heat.
And so? Considering that heating of the air around it is what you are hoping for. You could do the same by holding the candle up close to yourself.
Sorry if it seems like I am being disagreeable. But the facts are a small BTU heating source does not keep up with a large Delta T.
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As you state, radiation.
Infrared heating is a radiant form of heat that does not heat the air in a room rather emits an invisible wave of energy that is emitted to whatever is nearby, so you and objects such as the furniture, walls and flooring, which in turn absorb the heat and release it slowly.