What are you working on today?

Removed the 6 inch cans and now waiting for drywall to put in some of those LED potlights. Ceiling fan where the skylight was.

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Relocated the wire for the main bathroom light, fed the new light over the toilet on the ceiling from the wall light, and replaced the GFCI and switch with customer supplied material.

And yes I work Saturdays for some reason.

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Installed a 20kw Kohler generator and 200 amp automatic transfers switch complete with a new 200 amp main lug panel yesterday.

Hydro never showed up to put the meter back on... we were ready for hydro at 1:30 pm. At 6pm we fired up the generator and left. Boss texted me last night and hydro wasn't connected as of 11:30 pm.

12 hour day yesterday. Would have been less if hydro didn't show up at 12pm (was scheduled at 10am) also not enough room for 2 people at the panel & transfer switch.

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Working on putting lights up. I saw we outlaw these lights... there's 44 (fake/plastic) crystals to put on each of these, plus making sure they're all in their groove.

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I thought I was done with these... this one is for the master bedroom.

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This one has tissue paper to remove... but you have to rip around EVERY cotter pin so they don't pull out.

I say we outlaw them.

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dronai said:

That job sucks !!! I haven't had one of those jobs for years, and about a month ago, I had two that took hours !!!!! hundreds of crystals

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Man, that's brutal. We also have these to change... and yes, we will have to take apart the 3 upper sections of scaffolding to do each of those. We are waiting for them to figure out what to do with the chandelier they bought. We can't install it, so they're supposed to get a new one. The ceiling fans are being replaced with new ones, but I have no one to help with the scaffolding because I need to move it to do the fans.

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This didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. About the same amount of time to this start to finish as it was just to hang the crystal on one of the kitchen pendants.

And upon examination of the 3 other lights that are here to put up, 2 of them have crystal. The third one doesn't, but it's for over the bathtub in the master bath... of which doesn't have wiring for it. Lovely.

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Working on a solution to keep water from getting into an electrical room. The roof drain is next to the outside door and the concrete slab slopes into the room.

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If only it was as easy as cutting in a 5' long drain near the door so the water that comes in would drain before flooding.

ETA: something like this.

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Installed a camera on this pole today (the PTZ).

Boss said string the cat5e from the building to the pole, I say okay (even though I know it will break at some point...).

The 24MP camera was already installed for a time lapse of the building being built.

More cameras to do tomorrow (except this will be the highest camera)
Bonus pic: a face reveal!


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Wiring a manual transfer switch and subpanel at my dad's place... this project has been on the go for 2 years or more, so it's about time we do it.

70 amp generator to be wired after this.

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Well, we got the generator wired, and the generator panel done....except we forgot a circuit from the 200 amp tub, so tomorrow I have to swing it over to the generator panel.

Yes, I know we are missing *a few* panel fillers ....

Propane tank isn't staying there, the 100lb tank won't last long, I figure maybe 20 hours at 50% load, so we are getting a much larger tank.

Also changed an outdoor light. Went from one extreme to the other. First, it was too dark, so you couldn't see... now, it's too bright, so you can't see. We're gonna look at moving it tomorrow.

Also trying to figure out how to hang a street light while its mounted to the arm onto our hydro pole... I think I should buy a bucket truck...



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Wirenuting said:

Is that an Onan?

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Yup. It's 1 or 3 phase, field selectable. We have it set to single phase, which will give us just under 70 amps max, so we have it fused at 70.

Picked it up for $2500 a few years ago, with a full 100lb propane tank. Some homeowner had it, and before that it came out of (I believe) a Quebec government building.

It is actually quite a nice little generator.

A buddy of ours has 2 or 3 smaller (6kw) Onan propane generators. They're fantastic little things.

It is wired with #2 ACWU (aluminum teck cable), so if we wanted, we could hook up a 90amp generator (or even a 100 if we wanted to push the limits of the code lol).

It has a remote start function, so we may hook it up to a control in the basement near the manual transfer switch, but to do that, we have to finish the propane line to the bigger tank, and install air louvers with mechanical hold with spring open without power.

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Friday I installed a 4 way switch using some AC90 armour as flex. Simple job, as a couple years ago we put a 3 way switch in, so all we did was drop down 2 reds, 2 blues, and a ground wire, and cut into the 3 wire in the attic. (Don't mind all the other code violations...I can only fix so many at a time lol)

Friday night I put a couple of teleposts/jack posts in my mom's place temporarily to stop the beam from sagging anymore.

Saturday I wired a small powder room and a couple of receptacles for a desk.

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