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  1. SomeGuy

    Shop Shop Lights - Excessive Edition

    LoL well, it is almost 5 kilowatts, so I'm sure you could melt something with it...at least make a grilled cheese sandwich.
  2. SomeGuy

    Shop Shop Lights - Excessive Edition

    Don't judge me lol I came across a bunch of used ETC Source 4 Par's for $15/each, these used to be $400ish stage lights. I picked up 10 of them and hung 8 in the garage, wired in four new circuits for them as they're a bit power hungry. Ironically, it cost me more to rig/wire them than the...
  3. SomeGuy

    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    I WISH Dewalt would make one of these, would buy it in a heartbeat.
  4. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    Luckily the inspector I've had here (it's always the same guy for the neighbourhood, he did the original house, my deck, neighbours deck I built for them, now the basement) is outstanding, no grief at all, super helpful, hasn't asked me to change anything or always offered a way to make it work...
  5. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    And this is why homes continue to cost more and more to build... As with the electrical, some of it I get and would happily pay for, but some is just absurd and adds thousands or ten's of thousands to build cost for no reason whatsoever.
  6. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    There's also keeping up with the times, people want to install smart switches everywhere (heck, I've got a couple dozen in the house) and without the neutral they are going to hack around it and make things not safe. On switch lines if you run power to the light first, then just run a 14/2...
  7. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    That's a handy link to have (and downloaded the pdf), thanks! They went overboard on arc fault for sure. My house was built in 2015, right before they expanded the need for them, so luckily everything but the bedrooms and now the basement (since it had to comply with current code when finishing...
  8. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    I have a recent copy of that simplified book if anyone ever needs to see it. It's around expected loading...a 15a circuit around the house is expected to have a lamp, a tv, a phone charger, a clock, a computer, etc. plugged into it. Nothing exceeding 80%. Your hairdryer example is a bad one...
  9. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    Well that's good to hear.... Though, technically there's still a code violation having multiple receptacles that would allow overloading of the circuit. There's something in code that says the intended load of a circuit can't be more than 80% or whatnot, so you shouldn't be able to plug in more...
  10. SomeGuy

    Show us your shops!

    Is that all up to code? Clearly wasn't permitted work? Looks like 10/3 wire out of some sort of junction box? Into presumably a 50a plug....with only hot/hot/ground, no neutral - so did you just cap the extra wire in the plug boxes? Also, personally, I always use AC90 (aka armor cable) in...
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