And the questions about drywall screw depth continues. I'd suggest inviting the user to the chat room if I hadn't already posted that he may be creating a sound proof torture room.
@TheEvilGreebo, the question is pretty bad (ornamental fish tanks aren't really DIY) but I think your comment is worth converting to an answer: diy.stackexchange.com/questions/20817/…
Are we required to have one in a standard kitchen with a gas range in a residential home? The big question is not how many CFM or ducted or not, just whether there is a requirement in the building codes. I live in New Jersey, US.
The best I could find, was that it does say the manufacturers installation instructions must be followed. So I guess a hood is only required, if the manufacturer says so?
Also, can we please, please, please stop asking this question.
I have noticed in a few different houses in Oklahoma that 20 amp breakers are used, but all of the outlets and switches only seem to be rated for 15 amps. This goes against everything I know to be proper and safe. The wire used is 12 gauge, so at least that is fine.
I have started to replace all...
OR: is the rating for the entire receptacle or each outlet individually?
A common 15A receptacle has two outlets. If such a receptacle is attached to a 20A circuit, an 8A draw from each outlet will not trip the breaker.
Should such a draw cause the receptacle to fail? Or is the rating for each ...
I have a hypothetical question:
If you have a 15 Amp breaker connected to a 20 Amp T type outlet with (20 Amp) 12 AWG wire, is it within code, below code, or above code, where code means the National Electrical Code.
This is due to a discussion I had with a colleague that insists it is not with...
When wiring 15A-rated outlet receptacles on a 20A circuit, is it acceptable to use the tabs & screws to chain the circuit from one outlet to the next?
My instinct to overengineer says to use pigtails to pass the power to the next outlet and wire the receptacle, but this takes up more space i...
Actually, If I have a 20A circuit, with a branch off of it feeding a light fixture @2 x 100 W, A 15A switch should be safe. Probably not to code, but safe.
I was just reading through the UL test procedures.
Basically they wire up a receptacle to a 125V 1000A source with an appropriate breaker (15, 20, etc.), then they plug in a 2ft cord with the non plug ends twisted and soldered together.
If the breaker trips, the receptacle passes. If the receptacle emits sparks or magic smoke, it fails.
quick question. I've got a switch for my porch lights that has some play to it. If I wiggle it the lights go on an off. Is that as simple as a loose connection to the switch?
@Tester101 interesting. This one you can turn it "on" and nothing happens, but if you wiggle it it will turn on, but might go off or flicker...
wife is demanding porch lights, and I don't like using it in it's current state because I'd really rather not burn the house down...so I've gotta get it fixed.
@Tester101 yep, it's a double switch so it's a bit more, but small price to pay.
also still wondering wtf the 4th switch in that panel does.
both of our outside light switches are 3 gang boxes with 4 switches, and on both of them we have no idea what the 4th switch does...
first switch controls room lights, second is outside floods, third is porch lights, fourth is? maybe at one point it was (or was intended) to be outside outlets, but they aren't actually live right now...
Tester101 NEC 2012 404.19 Inoperable switches. Each building shall contain a minimum of one inoperable switch. Exception: A building containing exactly one switch, shall be exempt.
@ChrisCudmore too true. You go through when you buy a new house and play the "what does this do game" seems like cheating when the answer is nothing...
I walked through a house once, and found a switch that appeared to do nothing. My mother-in-law pointed out that the owners surround sound system was turning on/off, as I flipped the switch 100 times in rapid succession.
I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method :
public boolean isUserAGoat ()
Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations.
Returns
whether the user making this cal...
This appears to be an inside joke at Google. It's also featured in the Google Chrome task manager. It has no purpose, other than some engineers finding it amusing. Which is a purpose by itself, if you will.
In Chrome, open the Task Manager with Shift+Esc.
Right click to add the Goats Teleport...
On a side note, 631 up votes, over 100k views in 5 days, 6 answers, and SO closes it as "not constructive." I don't think I could be a mod over there.
The problem on a site as large as SO, is that whenever you start to have fun, everybody wants to join in. So you end up with a ton of answers and comments that are "look how funny I am, too" type noise.
I'm going to take the contrarian view and suggest that meta tags make sense for this, create a humor tag so people can add it to their ignore list like some do for the homework questions today.
And to solve the meta issue, have a flag to set on the tags that identifies it as a meta tag and require that each question has at least one non-meta tag.
Outlet. A point on the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment.
Receptacle. A receptacle is a contact device installed at the outlet for the connection of an attachment plug. A single receptacle is a single contact device with no other contact device on the same yoke. A multiple receptacle is two or more contact devices on the same yoke.
When wiring 15A-rated outlet receptacles on a 20A circuit, is it acceptable to use the tabs & screws to chain the circuit from one outlet to the next?
My instinct to overengineer says to use pigtails to pass the power to the next outlet and wire the receptacle, but this takes up more space i...
I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method :
public boolean isUserAGoat ()
Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations.
Returns
whether the user making this cal...
This appears to be an inside joke at Google. It's also featured in the Google Chrome task manager. It has no purpose, other than some engineers finding it amusing. Which is a purpose by itself, if you will.
In Chrome, open the Task Manager with Shift+Esc.
Right click to add the Goats Teleport...
