I found this at another site, and, I thought some folks here would want to comment. sorry about the quality, it looks like it was taken thru a screen. :>)
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I really like how there are blue and red wires on both terminals.
Edited 9/22/2005 3:46 pm ET by Norman
it isprobably the way to keep things from getting hooked to the wrong circuit"
Hey...at least they didn't bury a J box.
that is a excellent point !!"
And if by "Outback" you mean Australia, they're on 220 for standard voltage.....
yes it is that Outback, it also explains the discoloration around the ....electrodes, and the need for the double insulated ....service,, many thanks"
don't mean to be pedantic but its 240 volt
You're so pendantic.
Now, wait while I look that word up.
Actually I did a search and could not find any 2 soruces that agree.One list it as 230, another as 240, several as 220 and several as 220-240.
Following the well-established pedantic nature of this thread...1. could not find any 2 soruces that agree
2. several as 220Doesn't #2 directly contradict #1?
....is that an EGC ? on 220 ,221 .......
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Japan is 100 Vac. When we visited son and DIL in Sendai in the 90's, their little abode had the CB attached to a wood beam about 6 ft off the floor, wires attached directly without any cover, single wires then to covered surface outlet near sink on single wires (not romex) similarily attached to wood posts with uninsulated staples. Place also had an indoor cesspool that was pumped every 2 months. Easy to believe the outback photo is 'operational'
maybe it was the same contractor..."
Reminds me of what I have seen on some older farmsteads. Single conductors on cleats going to surface mounted devices.Not uncommon to see two or three, gives you a choice of 120 or 240v, bare conductors, #6 solid seemed the most common, run at about 7' high across the barn or machine shed. There would be several lamp sockets or receptacles rigged to a set of jumper cable clamps. If you need a light or power in a particular location you just clamp on the clips to the appropriate lines and your good to go.Sort of ####poor man's heavy-duty 60'plug-mold. Very handy. Just have to remember to remind your idiot brother not to do his jumping jacks in the middle of the barn. Or not. Depends on how much you need a laugh and/or desire to split the inheritance.Since when did the simple single lettered word - "a" become a bad word needing to be replaced by ####. I think the foul language filter needs to be tuned up a bit. Edited to add last block of text.
Edited 9/23/2005 4:20 pm ET by 4Lorn1
I have the attention span of a ..........what was I writing?
Oh yeah, I can write dumbass
but a ....a is not possible (edit)
well what the heckfire is going on...that went through
Edited 9/23/2005 5:46 pm ET by maddog3
The way it seems to work is that the letter "a" followed by one space is OK, but with more spaces, it gets replaced. Here's a test:
The letter in quotes: "a"
Letter and one space in quotes: "a "
Letter and two spaces in quotes: "a "
Now to see how that worked....
Nope, it went thru OK with two spaces. Let's try more spaces and a letter "x" instead of end quotes:
Letter "a" two spaces, then "x": "a x"
Ditto with three spaces: "a x"
OK, so it looks like it's something more subtle than just the spaces. It's definitely a bug in the dirty word filter, though.
-- J.S.
Edited 9/23/2005 6:41 pm ET by JohnSprung
Edited 9/23/2005 6:43 pm ET by JohnSprung
..........extension ring,a couple of offsets............"(edit)
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=63290.11
Edited 9/23/2005 7:32 pm ET by maddog3
check out http://www.currentsolutions.com/knowledge/country_spec_a-g.htm
If I look at any of my tools, appliances, or circuit boxes for that matter they are all 240 volt. Thats the Australian standard.
check out http://www.currentsolutions.com/knowledge/country_spec_a-g.htm
When we were there in '95, it was 220 (I think we still have the Australian hairdryer around my wife bought to replace the US spec one she plugged in.....with pretty impressive results......).
Based on the searches I did, looks like the standard is now moving to the european 230 volts nominal, with 240 not unusual.....
Here's the link:
http://kropla.com/electric2.htm
And not so much pedantic as picayune.... :-)
220, 230 will work but the voltage is 240, paltry it may be but petty it's not.
there is no substitute for being right http://www.currentsolutions.com/knowledge/country_spec_a-g.htm
curley, I've taken my shots at the DIYers myself,
when I'm not busy screwing up my own projects,
but this just meant as a joke,
feel free to jump all over this thread cuz,
for all I know it might have been some dumbass electrician....but I have never been to Australia
Are you sure that thing is energized and in use? Not hanging on the wall in a modern art museum? ;-)
-- J.S.
now that you mention it, it does look ####ed up enough to be a modern art masterpiece..What do you suppose is the ampacity of the nails?"
Looks like something you would see in Mexico.
I disagree...they would have used DW screws...."
Deck screws, not DW. Resist corrosion better.
but now you need a special connector between the branch circuits and the feeders"
Maybe it's a defibrillator? Patient grabs the two ummm... electrodes and..cleaaaaar!
hahaha, you got me thinking,
I 'm sure some folks here remember the Hot Dog cooker that used a dead short to heat up a weiner ?"
Remember it? I built one as a kid. Same thing, just wrap some wires around nails, poke em into the hotdog. No wonder I wire the way I do ;)
yep faster than a microwave....."
I had one of those when I was a kid. Worked great. I think the one I had held up to 6 hot dogs and you could control how fast they cooked by the number you put in at a time.....
the thing was ingenious, kinda like arc welding, with hotdogs as the load bank !WHAT possibly could go wrong? ......I ask you"
I may have found the breaker feeding the "artwork"I cropped it, ....that is 409 as in 409C ...... so around 900F ?
....one loose screw is almost 900 degrees F"
Back in the 60s we were not allowed to cook anything in the dorm. Roomate and I had a pair of forks liberated from the cafeteria with lamp cord soldered to them.. It was an adventure to pull the forks out of the hot dog if one forgot to unplug the cord first. <G>. Esp, if your hand were still salty damp from the cold dogs.