Well... I"ll address this as a workmanship issue, primarily. I've VERY negative about the quality of work I see done by the typical apprentice and a sad, sad number of journeymen.One day my Dauter detected smoke/fire in the lower landing of the house. Been a nightmare for me years ago about the slow fire! Turned out there was a problem both at the outlet in the stairs and switch feeding the garage, and the outlet feeding the garage door operener.... was a question of home owner grade outlet switches and outlets given I was maxing them out. Each when found out to be a problem over a period of issues. including to melted down outlets with similar melted down...
All have been switched out for commercial grade and no further problems unless I turned on air compressor while heater was on in breaker tripping.
In part it's a all be it 15A wiring... concept that for home owner grade outlets or switches that will be complient in working, but also never be the case in maxing them out for that standard. But it is the minimum standard or future standard. Electric vehicles TBA future. Dedicated line - what available breaker to feed it? Than running that specific line, or just future of contractors just plugging into home owner grade systems not ready as I found for real loading in how they were wired and the grade of outlets.
Ditto on checking electrical work. I did a kitchen re do about 6 years ago.. In dis assembling, I took out for replacement some outlets and switches we had put in behind the counter maybe 10 years before that. The outlets were all in boxes that just BARELY accomodated the boxy GFI fixtures that they were.. ie.. no way to stuff them in without the wires or screw terminals contacting the metal box.. They were all just wrapped in electrical tape surrounding the whole GFI fixture and stuffed in friction tight. Very lucky that over the years expansion and contraction didn't saw through any of the electrical tape. Might have just shorted arced and tripped.. might have been worse.. and this was a well known local licensed electrical firm.Well... I"ll address this as a workmanship issue, primarily. I've VERY negative about the quality of work I see done by the typical apprentice and a sad, sad number of journeymen.
I just found a 15' NEMA 5-15 cable left at the PAC. From a major 3-letter-company that does LX rentals. Of the 6 set screws, 5 were not even finger tight. Rather than fix it (or even investigate why it didn't work), it was purposely left behind. It's powering my outdoor pet heater now.
In construction I've found all kinds of mis wiring, under-torqued terminals, crimp connections on insulation, all manner of lousy work. It seems to be a combination of "finish this so we can move on" or "nobody give a **** here, just make it look like it's done."
Charging EVs is off topic to our forums but I'll say that anyone having electrical work done should carefully review that work.
I think it's a combination of this, the fact that people already have accounts and a presence on these sites, and that off topic discussion tends to thread itself away rather than hide the signal in all of the noise.FB and Reddit are great places to go to get an answer to your question. Your answer may be right, wrong, insulting, from a 12 year old "expert", dangerous, or full of hate speech... but you will get an answer.
I've avoided all forms of antisocial media and Redit as well. The S/N ratio is crap and I'd spend more time trying to undo/reeducate the nonsense than make any forward movement. CB is a vastly better use of time and energy.I think it's a combination of this, the fact that people already have accounts and a presence on these sites, and that off topic discussion tends to thread itself away rather than hide the signal in all of the noise.
Okay, and that's why you're here. However to loop back to the question of where all the students have gone: most people don't, which is why most people are not here.I've avoided all forms of antisocial media and Redit as well. The S/N ratio is crap and I'd spend more time trying to undo/reeducate the nonsense than make any forward movement. CB is a vastly better use of time and energy.
And perception is reality, so the sheer numbers on antisocial media means we lose no matter how wrong it is.Okay, and that's why you're here. However to loop back to the question of where all the students have gone: most people don't, which is why most people are not here.
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