RubiAR
Well-Known Member
My buddy is an electrician that works on base a lot (civ ctr) and all the lighting is 277. They won't let him shut off any of it during business hours. Sort of ironic how they'd never allow that for AF personnel.I worked for a major company as an electrician for a while.
At times we had to move or add workstations and install new tombstones (floor mounted outlets) or resolve intermittent power issues at a workstation.
Workstations were in rows. The building engineers never labeled much of anything so we often didn't know which breaker out of many dozens in those huge panels were for which area.
The team leader had a solution - screwdrivers in the outlet to pop the breaker for that area.
We could then work on that circuit, simply go back and reset the breaker and move on.
(we often had to work on live circuits because of management orders "you will never take down a department during work hours". That meant working on live 220 at times)
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