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My foreman wanted to take the stairway lights off the temps coming from the floors so I went ahead and ended up cutting off the last two feeding from two floors. I connected each string to the other going from the second floor to the 23rd floor from the mezzanine floor I tied into a string connected on the first floor. Where we have I'd say about 4 Metal hallide lights I'm not sure on the wattage but its one of the basic one's used for temp lighting in big jobs. The mezzanine has two of them as well as a few regular temp lights.
So after getting a lift and tying into the lights, I disconnected the string from the temps on the floors only to have the breaker pop on me. I ran downstairs after some rather angry stairs and b1tchy comments from some of the other people down there. So I flipped the breaker on, once,twice,thrice only to finally get fed up enough to go upstairs and reconnect the entire staircase lights to a single floor and separate them from the first floor. Amazingly no more tripping who'da though eh ? So after my foreman gets angry because he says he gets tired of doing everyone's job and after me feeling like he thinks I'm lying to him he goes ahead and has me splice back into the first floor.
The breaker trips which I already knew it would, it's coming from a 15amp breaker in the panel in the basement I mistakenly said this morning that it was another short. Which after thinking about it when I really looked at what was going on I figured was wrong. I go downstairs to turn the breaker on only to have my foreman there telling the other guy screw it plug it into a 30amp breaker. Now most of the lights are run with either 12/2 or 14/3 with the red not being used. The only reason i didn't do this was because I know it was wrong to do such a thing, now what do you guys say ? It's for temp lights and for the most part hopefully the permanent stairway lights will be up and running in a week or two.... hopefully
So after getting a lift and tying into the lights, I disconnected the string from the temps on the floors only to have the breaker pop on me. I ran downstairs after some rather angry stairs and b1tchy comments from some of the other people down there. So I flipped the breaker on, once,twice,thrice only to finally get fed up enough to go upstairs and reconnect the entire staircase lights to a single floor and separate them from the first floor. Amazingly no more tripping who'da though eh ? So after my foreman gets angry because he says he gets tired of doing everyone's job and after me feeling like he thinks I'm lying to him he goes ahead and has me splice back into the first floor.
The breaker trips which I already knew it would, it's coming from a 15amp breaker in the panel in the basement I mistakenly said this morning that it was another short. Which after thinking about it when I really looked at what was going on I figured was wrong. I go downstairs to turn the breaker on only to have my foreman there telling the other guy screw it plug it into a 30amp breaker. Now most of the lights are run with either 12/2 or 14/3 with the red not being used. The only reason i didn't do this was because I know it was wrong to do such a thing, now what do you guys say ? It's for temp lights and for the most part hopefully the permanent stairway lights will be up and running in a week or two.... hopefully