randomkiller

I work for a commerical company, we don't do residential. Except for today. We do some work for a GC that gives us a fair amount of work. His house is a split level with a dirt/rock crawlspace with four sump pumps that smells like urine. The garage is chopped down to @5' deep with a wall that interects one of the two breaker panels. Another crew pulled out all the old equipment. I have to run a new circuit to furnace, circuit to the condenser, install a t-stat (all new locations) and then wire up an ultraviolet air cleaner, humidifier, and all the low voltage controls, no big deal. Yeah right. If something could go bad, it did. My apprentice was in the crawl, all I heard was mother f----r every five minutes, usually right after a thump noise. At one point I was down there with him and he said he was getting wet, just as I asked if he smelled urine really strong. I guess his day was worse than mine.
By the end of the day we are out in the driveway talking about the rest of the week, how many spiders he inhaled, how many cuts/splinters we gained, just then we see a family of squirrels head back inside right behind the brick face into the crawl. Guess I know what made the smell. Hope you guys had a better day.

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Skkitzzo

My monday would have went well if the supply store supplied 8 ft flourescent fixtures instead of 2, 4ft fixtures butted up to each other. twice the work and the pain of getting them exactly lined up was just uneeded stress. so finished putting up 12 of those p.o.s and 2, 300W RABB wallpacks and we were out of there. ended up driving 20 minutes away to install one track light and called it a day at 2pm, perhaps the only good part of the day :P

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480sparky

My Monday was just peachy! Started a house rewire..... 95% of it is gutted down to the studs. Had the upstairs all to myself. Only two guys, a carpenter and a tile setter, working on the main level.
Ho-hum boring, but I could at least get something accomplished without tripping over 30 other guys!

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randomkiller

Today is much better, we finished up the hell hole this morning. I hope it fails inspection for the million violations that we didnt address, like the sub panel with the wall in front of it. The whole house looks to be wired in used pieces of old bx, all the wiring looks older than the house. Grounding there is a nightmare. I just got to a job with some controls problems, so now I am rebooting some Johnson software, so I get to internet in the interim.

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MDShunk

I know some commercial guys look down upon the resi guys. When you do resi old work and service, it's really trying some days. It's almost a different skill set and different mindset. Certainly among the dirtiest of the electrical specialties many times.

I spent most of today finishing up a bathroom ruff that was started yesterday. It should have been done yesterday, but the homeowner practicly wants to approve every staple I put in. Whatever they want to pay for, I really don't care. Started wiring for air conditioning this afternoon for a small warehouse/garage that stores old blueprints for the town's building department. Not sure when I'll get back to finish that up. It might be fill in work for later on. It's not really that much work, but every time I move, I need to move crap that's in my way. That place is packed. It also has about 2,000 old parking meters stacked here and there and everywhere. When you move tons of those things, it's not very much fun.

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randomkiller

[quote=MDShunk;9454]I know some commercial guys look down upon the resi guys. When you do resi old work and service, it's really trying some days. It's almost a different skill set and different mindset. Certainly among the dirtiest of the electrical specialties many times.


It isnt that I was looking down on anyone, it was just the conditions that we were sent to. I dont see how a "GC" would have a house in that condition without seeing how bad things are. Some of the work he has done made things that much worse. The crawlspace that is accessed from the family room has such a bad animal urine smell that it made me sneeze as soon as I went down the steps. There had to be a few dozen mouse carcasses laying on the plastic sheeting he had just put down. It is just real bad conditions to be in.

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micromind

Mine was great! Started a new power plant for the first time. All that control work, and drawing corrections I've been doing for the past several weeks finally came together. No fires, no explosions, it all worked as planned. lol. The utility feed was 34.5KV, indoor metal-clad switchgear, 3 breakers. One of them feeds a 20MVA xfmer down to 12.5KV. The gen is 22.5MVA, 12.5KV. There's also a 4160 MCC with Ampgard starters, 2-800HP, and 2-500HP. The 480 MCC is 3000 amp, with about 50 buckets. And then there's all those pesky PLC's! lol.

When working with any generator that's designed to synchronize with anything else, it's very important that phasing and rotation be correct, or very bad things will happen. On a medium voltage system, like this one, alot can go wrong. To verify proper synchronization, if I can, I'll disconnect the gen leads, disable the breaker trip circuit, close the breaker (hot), and see if the synch system will synch across the closed breaker. If it will, the gen will be in synch when it closes for real. If not, well, I'm glad I tested it first! I really dislike synching a generator the first time, and not much more after that. Maybe it's because I've seen what can happen, and don't want to be a part of it.

jbfan

My Monday was great. Slept to about 9. Grabbed the fly rod for about an hour of fishing, then to make up for the fishing, had to go shopping, then more fishing.
Like that most of the week, but then I am on vacation!!!
Sorry guys. Couldn't resist.

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