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Post by NoSmoke » Mon. May. 25, 2020 4:04 pm

lsayre wrote:
Tue. Sep. 06, 2016 8:08 pm
All of the outlets in my house have the ground wire at the top.
Most of mine now are.

About 15 years ago I switched over to putting in the outlet grounded prong up, and switched the older outlets as I worked on them. I can tell in a second which outlets are the oldest and have not had any work on them yet.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Tue. May. 26, 2020 10:02 am

I have installed LEDs nearly throughout our house. The only fixtures I left alone have T8 fluorescent bulbs, which still work well.

As for the outlet orientation, I installed the outlets by our desk with the ground wire on the bottom. Most power strips have a 90 degree plug on the end I hate the way it looks with the wiring going up and looping back down.

 
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Post by lsayre » Tue. May. 26, 2020 10:22 am

Rob R. wrote:
Tue. May. 26, 2020 10:02 am
I have installed LEDs nearly throughout our house. The only fixtures I left alone have T8 fluorescent bulbs, which still work well.

As for the outlet orientation, I installed the outlets by our desk with the ground wire on the bottom. Most power strips have a 90 degree plug on the end I hate the way it looks with the wiring going up and looping back down.
If I had the gumption, I would turn over each of our homes receptacles such that the ground is on the bottom.


 
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Post by Rob R. » Sun. Aug. 30, 2020 9:18 am

We are in the process of building an addition on our home, and one of the first projects was locating the existing underground electric service. Turns out it was not where I thought it was (original installers went around some rocks) and we had to move it outside of the foundation footprint. The excavation crew located the wires by hand, dug a new trench tight to the driveway, flopped the wires in the new trench, backfilled, and got back to the main job at hand. It all ended up being a tight fit, but the foundation is done and the lights are still on. 8-)

Not shown in the pictures, but the footer is only about 12" above our water line going to the well. I am glad we did not have to mess with that.

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Post by freetown fred » Sun. Aug. 30, 2020 10:54 am

How bout a pix of the whole poured slab???????????? :)

 
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Post by Rob R. » Mon. Sep. 14, 2020 10:10 am

freetown fred wrote:
Sun. Aug. 30, 2020 10:54 am
How bout a pix of the whole poured slab???????????? :)
At some point I will post pictures of the entire project, probably in a separate thread.


 
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Post by Rob R. » Mon. Sep. 14, 2020 10:30 am

A few days ago we moved into our guest cottage due to the remodel activities in the main house. Everything seemed fine until we added the coffee pot, toaster, and plugged in the fridge. I noticed when the fridge kicked on, the lights would flicker, and when we used the toaster and/or coffee pot, the lights in the kitchen got brighter. I snugged everything in the breaker panel, but did not find anything loose. Power company came this morning and replaced the neutral connector at the pole, and got 3 turns on the neutral lug in the meter box. Afterwards they put some sort of load tester into the meter socket and put a big load on the service to check for any voltage irregularities. I got the thumbs up from the man doing the work and verified that the flickering was fixed.

Just another example of issues caused by a loose connection.

 
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Post by rberq » Mon. Sep. 14, 2020 12:29 pm

Rob R. wrote:
Mon. Sep. 14, 2020 10:30 am
Just another example of issues caused by a loose connection.
Loose connection between my brain and my mouth causes the most trouble.

I just went over my oil burner controls checking connections. It has had a strange problem ever since new where the photocell intermittently sees no flame and locks out, then it will work fine for months at a time. I found one suspect ground but I really don't think that is the issue.

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