So I know practically nothing about houses having rented for many years, just bought a house and was told by my inspector the panel is only a 70 amp panel and will need to be upgraded before I go to install AC.
I took him at his word, and had one AC consult, mentioning this to the guy he looked ...
I currently live in a in laws suite with my wife in the in laws house. We love it and have plenty of room. Look at the attached picture for what we have for a space. My question is if I wanted to add a dishwasher, I'm looking at getting a cheap scratch and dent Bosch at a store foreclosure th...
That's why people ask about it here, so we can tell them how to do it right or avoid a mistake.
Is a rice cooker is a major appliance in other countries?
@Joe.wang I was not trying to insult you, I was simply asking for clarification. You still have not provided enough additional information for someone to assist you. If this is in-fact a rice cooker that you install as a permanent fixture in your home, I think it is a good fit for this website as "Installation, maintenance, and repair of major appliances." If this is a rice cooker that you plug into a wall, then it is off-topic for this website. Regardless, you will need to provide information about the other wires that you would like to connect to the rice cooker in order to supply power. — statueuphemismSep 6 at 16:24
I Think China is 220V 50Hz, so it would probably be L1, L2, Earth. But I don't know anything about the insulation colors in China, so it's difficult to say which is which.
@Tester101 thanks so much for all that info! It's so hard to know when any consult you ever get the person has a vested interest in swaying your belief
@Tester101 Much. Interesting part to me is that it's a 125A and doesn't have a main breaker, I would have thought if it's 125A it wouldn't have been so old as to be missing that
Another curiosity if you can humor me; say they repurpose my 30A breaker, what do you do with the spare wire that runs to the laundry room socket? No reason to remove it when a panel upgrade from now I can have it hot again, assuming you don't just leave it dangling in there...
What would you like to attach it to? You could use a twist-on wire connector, and connect all the wires from the cable together. If that makes you happy.
@Tester101 Not knowing anything about this stuff, I was just assuming dangling stray wires in a breaker box are a safety issue or something, but I guess since it's not hot and I'll plug the other end to keep it that way there's no harm that could come from it contacting anything in there... unless it crosses anything and shorts it?
You could pull the cable out of the panel, coil it up and then label it. But it's not necessary, since there shouldn't be much movement inside the panel under normal circumstances.
@JimmyHoffa Just talked to a friend of mine, he said he's seen people terminate unused wires in the service panel at the grounding bus bar. So you could bundle the wires together with a label ("For Future Use"), then terminate them all at the grounding bus bar (assuming you have space in the bus for the extra wires).
I'm not sure if this violates any codes, but it seems like a safe way to go. It might raise an eyebrow or two, but shouldn't cause any problems.
@Aaron yeah that's what I expect I'll have them do.
or rather, I'll leave it in the box, but just label and cap it
Onto another wiring topic if anyone knows: What's the best way to get a cable from my NID into my house? Obviously it already has one, but the quality is garbage so for home internet right now I have my DSL modem on a direct line to the NID (through a conveniently small hole in a window screen, ok I might be a little bit redneck)
I could just attach the new cable to the old one and try to pull the old cable through as is common for pulling new wires through, but I suspect the old cable branches out immediately upon entry so no one place could I pull the old cable through
Alternatively, am I best off just getting another hole drilled to get the new NID wire into the house?
Decades of DIY electrical work, does not equal decades of electrical experience. Doing it wrong for a decade, does not mean you know how to do it right. — Tester1012 mins ago
@Tester101 That's got to be a bit of a sticky wicket as a mod here. My usual haunt over on Programmers or SO, mods can gladly leave incorrect/unsafe answers knowing it's extremely unlikely any genuine injury could possibly occur due to it, and removing content based on correctness is discouraged by SE
@JimmyHoffa I used to write real-time programs for satellites, planes, etc. So my one mistake could cause a multitude of lives but yeah that is not the norm
Do you ever remove content due to the unsafeness of it? It's unfortunate because you can't be expected to be right about all safety features
@Jason Aye, I've written software regulated by the FDA for ventilators, bug in the prescription code could put the wrong settings on a ventilator so I get that, but as you said; very rare.
@JimmyHoffa When I see something I feel is unsafe, I vote it down and post a comment. I rely on the community to ultimately decide the fate of dangerous content.
@Jason It is right, but other things might be righter.
That's why the site has voting. The righterest things move to the top.
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@JimmyHoffa I've consulted the old-timers, and they've come to the decision that you shouldn't terminate unused wires at the grounding terminal because they are "not fond of the idea of terminating red or black wires on a ground bar".
@JimmyHoffa Just talked to a friend of mine, he said he's seen people terminate unused wires in the service panel at the grounding bus bar. So you could bundle the wires together with a label ("For Future Use"), then terminate them all at the grounding bus bar (assuming you have space in the bus for the extra wires).
I sure hope I learn how to do this whole "take care of my house" shit before the thing falls down. renting for almost 2 decades, I literally feel like I'm going to come home one day and find my roof in my driveway because I didn't know to frob my argbicator
I currently live in a in laws suite with my wife in the in laws house. We love it and have plenty of room. Look at the attached picture for what we have for a space. My question is if I wanted to add a dishwasher, I'm looking at getting a cheap scratch and dent Bosch at a store foreclosure th...
