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Solving a Wiring Mess?
FueledByRamen asks: "While trying to run a new power line for a large Sun mass-storage cabinet (located nowhere near a 220 outlet of course), I had the misfortune of needing to pop the lid on my main power distribution panel (previously opened in the late 80s). The whole thing is a rats nest and probably a fire hazard - old-style wiring with broken-down cloth/plastic insulation strewn everywhere, and the utility's incoming power cables have some sort of junction in them that's the size of a 1-liter bottle (on each wire) and is covered in layers of electrical tape. Even (gently) putting the panel back on jiggled something important, and there was a nasty cracking noise and half the breakers blew (all breakers in one of the 2 columns). I've worked with mains voltage in the past (wiring new rooms, installing lighting), but nothing on this scale, both in terms of complexity and potential for death. How do you industrious Slashdot readers go about fixing a mess like this (on a tight budget, no less) without getting a mains-induced glimpse at the great beyond?"
If Tesla was alive today, he would still be ahead of his time.
Dear God, why won't my ears stop ringing?!!!!!!
you are king for a day for getting a +4 redundant, thats awesome. and now i get modded down as offtopic, but i dont care.
i sell illegal drugs
While that article is absolutely right, please do the community a favor: never, ever, post a link to that goofy-ass Sammy Hagar wannabe again. Thank you.
How do I moderate the Topic down as a troll?
I've been shocked by a lot more volts than that. All that happened is my hair stuck out and got frizzy and I was able to harmlessly 'zap' people by pointing my finger at them and getting within a few inches. It was on a Van De Graf generator. Granted the AMPS on that thing was a very teeny tiny amount, but hey..
The AMPS are what kills you. The Volts are just what allow the AMPS to reach you. When you were jolted by 110 volt power and nothing happened what really happened was that the current was travelling on the outside surface of your skin (probably being conducted via sweat and oils) instead of through the inside of your body and that's why you aren't dead or horribly burned right now. 220 volt power is more likely to kill you NOT because of the amount of power, but because of the greater likelyhood that some of the power will take a path that hits important parts of your body on the way. The current in just one-half of the house 220 line (a 110 line), is still more than enough to kill you if it takes the right path. It's just a bit less likely to take such a path. Count yourself lucky that you only felt a "tingle" from that house current. That just means it stayed on the outside of your body and didn't hit anything important on the way.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
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Give up posting here looking for sympathy with ppl that
are largely the replacements for the americans that got canned
Your trying to make your point to the ppl that took those jobs,
or corporate types that have the imported labor working for them
so upper management and a select few find a raise in a downturn
Meanwhile the bankruptcies pile up, and the cars go back
We got 12,000,000 ppl out of work, and we got some bozo on
here saying they are Alcoholics
How about some of them don't even drink, how about some of
them drink responsibly ??? No, he just decided to stereo type
them because they are lazy american scum
Well to that rhetoric I would like to say, why did you leave
your country and come here if America/Americans suck so bad
For the money, and that is all
Are you back in your country trying to make it better, no
I do not think so it is just a money grab, by the imported
labor and by the Suits that lied about labor shortages for
past 5+ year and Norman mattloff a professor at UC Davis
outlines that farce in this fine article that is WELL
documented here
http://www.vdare.com/pb/matloff_h1b.htm
As for the replacement of american workers , it will continue
until ppl in america finally get sick of it enough to do what
canada did
It was SO RAMPANT in canada that canadians have made it so
that you cannot fill a job as a foreignor if a out of work
canadian can be found to fill the job
They keep records of ppl, and give them right of first
refusal, and if they are qualified they get the job
If they are not qualified and they cannot find ANYONE
that is qualified and willing to work for the "prevailing"
wage, then a Visa worker can step in and take the job
This sounds like good common sense
Taking the nations economy and laying off "millions"
and triggering "millions" of bankruptcies is patently "stupid"
Let's take a clue from canada and end the cheap scab
labor program , read up on what Mr. Tancredo of the
US senate has to say about the Visa worker abuses:
http://www.h1b.info/
So to the popping jays that spout rhetoric , a storm is
building and the laid off americans are pi$$ed off
Take your Alcoholic talk and take your Visa and head home
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"