[sudo-discuss] Electrical work currently being done for La Commune (affecting panel for Kitchen / Upstairs_

[David Keenan]

Thanks for all your work, Steve!

FYI the off the shelf circuit tracers dont really work. You need a really
expensive pro one. Saying this from experience in Omni, cause I bought one
too. Basically what happens is the trace leaks into other circuits a lot
and you get misreadings, so don't put a lot of faith in them - you'll have
to physically test'em to be sure.

David

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Steve Bloom <stevebloom55 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Patrik, that should come in handy!
>
> -- Steve
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> By the way, we do have a circuit tracer in CCL, in case anyone needs one.
>> You plug a little gizmo into a live outlet, or clip it onto a set of live
>> wires, and it send a small audio signal up through the wire that you can
>> detect at the breaker panel.
>>
>> It's in the drawer labeled "tools" in one of the lab benches. The orange
>> gadget is the sensor. the small wall wart device is the transmitter.
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Steve Bloom <stevebloom55 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for posting this, David.
>>>
>>> Cover is on and the tripping problem should now be at least reduced
>>> since I was able to split the circuit such that the kitchen and den are on
>>> one breaker (now #7) and the hallways on another (#8).  In addition, the LC
>>> extension cord (to which the overhead light strings are attached) has been
>>> removed from that same circuit and put on #6, which is powering a temporary
>>> receptacle in LC that we're also using for our power tools.
>>>
>>> All nine of the other breakers are turned off since they're no longer
>>> doing anything, although I'm unwiring them only after confirming what
>>> they're actually attached to.  Most of these were to now-defunct lighting
>>> and power circuits in the bar area.  Next week several will be repurposed
>>> for new receptacle circuits in LC to be installed along the
>>> newly-sheetrocked walls.
>>>
>>> The note taped to the front of the panel now reflects this new condition.
>>>
>>> Some of these circuits are going to be hard to trace and if so will be
>>> left in place for the time being with the breaker off, so if anyone notices
>>> a loss of power to anything that was working as of last week, please let me
>>> know.
>>>
>>> If possible, I'll get the den onto a separate circuit from the kitchen.
>>>
>>> -- Steve
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:25 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The tireless volunteers Steve Bloom ( stevebloom55 at gmail.com ) and I
>>>> believe Rayc ( what is is email - anyone know? )  are in the midst of
>>>> decommissioning electrical runs from to La Commune, from the panel in Rise
>>>> Above that also feeds the oft-tripping breaker to the upstairs.
>>>>
>>>> All, before touching this panel, please attempt to communicate first
>>>> with Steve or Rayc regarding whether it safe to do. Specifically, all,
>>>> NEVER reach your hand inside a panel that does not have a cover plate on
>>>> (covering the electrical wires and connections), even if it is only to flip
>>>> a breaker. Instead, at a minimum, put the cover plate back on first.
>>>>
>>>> This panel includes the oft-tripping breaker for the Kitchen and TIL
>>>> etc offices - #8, so please pay heed.
>>>>
>>>> Steve showed me that he decommissioned breakers # 7 & 11.
>>>> Breakers 3&4 were I believe decomissioned by an electrician hired by
>>>> Rise Above.
>>>> #8 is the one that always trips and needs to be worked on / rewired to
>>>> prevent this
>>>>
>>>> Please see the photo below for reference.. thanks!
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>
>>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20150201/1088aa6e/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ElecSubPanel-forLaCommuneAndKitchen.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 107731 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20150201/1088aa6e/attachment.jpg>