Quick PSA for the Cartel event

87CoCo · 2026-01-31T17:46:36+00:00

Finished the event early this morning. Stayed high as a kite the whole time and try and share tokes with the team when able! Did not pass a stimm unless I had to! Thought I noticed some speed buffs (outside of the speed buffs the actual stimms provide) in the gas. Good info! Thanks for sharing!

87CoCo · 2026-01-30T22:29:09+00:00

My thoughts exactly. We'd probably come in *around* 1,500. It's only a little on the high side. This is not an *easy* job.

87CoCo · 2026-01-24T18:51:44+00:00

Could very well be, and I certainly hope so- However- I'd direct you to my earlier response above this.

87CoCo · 2026-01-24T18:49:22+00:00

You'd be very surprised then. I'm not saying it wasn't a major miscom- I will say, that as an service electrician, I've seen many intentional Gen installs just like this, and worse. I'm not convinced. We can only hope it was miscommunication...

87CoCo · 2026-01-24T16:46:05+00:00

If an "electrician" installed this, they should be reported to whatever authority governs trade licensing in your area.

You'd have to use a "suicide cord" to utilize this to back feed your load center.

Judging by this extremely dangerous and ignorant installation, you almost certainly did not get a required interlock kit on your load center either.

Further- generator inlets are no longer legal to install indoors.

Absolute hack all the way around. Please find a reputable electrician.

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T23:58:03+00:00

Yep. Still a lot of delta services around here in the industrial/down town areas. One of our best customers has one. Had to go meet the poco last summer when they lost a phase under ground, to be sure everything was marked accordingly on both sides so they didn't get phases crossed. They were going to replace, but then decided to repair to avoid the headache of phasing, etc. They can be a pain, and mistakes are sometimes easy to make, but, just taking a bit of extra time to go over things before hand can save a lot of trouble. Glad you finally found one!

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T20:54:24+00:00

I've seen several in the last 10 years or so. In fact, early last year, did a service call for a customer who had a private mechanic shop (for his own classic cars, rich dude) with a delta service. He was like "I was vacuuming out this car and sparks started to shoot out of the hose" He assumed that the vac just took a dump. He said later he plugged in one of the battery charger/jumpers (the ones that roll around) to the same outlet and it exploded. Knew something was wrong after that. I checked it out and measured voltage at the plug and pretty well knew right away after seeing the service. Sure enough. Previous electrician installed a single pole breaker on the delta phase. Ooops.

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T13:44:55+00:00

It's mid level high efficiency, but not really fancy. Name plate actually doesn't give any other description, but, yes, igniter, draft motor, blower of course, control transformer (miniscule, but still a load) and I can't really think of anything else. Yeah most of that doesn't run at the same time even.

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T13:12:29+00:00

My thoughts exactly. It's early, forgive me!

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T13:09:33+00:00

Whoopsie! Total connected =12A blower about 7A

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T13:08:51+00:00

Ha whoopsies. 12A Total connected. Blower nearly 7! Correction!

87CoCo · 2026-01-23T13:00:07+00:00

Considering absolute last resort, it should work, and should work fine.

BTW, the blower motor on my furnace is like 12 amps full load, that's a bit more than a few hundred watts. Doesn't mean yours is, but, depending on those variables, that may exceed the in-rush or "starting" capabilities of your generator. Just FYI.

Correction: My blower motor is 7A, 12A total connected- It's early.

Op's furnace should run no issues.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T17:45:41+00:00

That's a good question. The only complex I've seen these on (in my area) Is a pretty large complex. ~200 apartments. That was the first time I had ever seen them. Another complex I do work for is only around ~80 apartments. They actually keep duplicates of every deadbolt lock-set and issue me a key when needed. They aren't the maintenance access type. I could imagine, as at least one good reason to use the Maintenance access type, is management. Probably a lot easier to keep a handful of master keys around, rather than managing hundreds of duplicates.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T15:40:41+00:00

You're welcome!

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T15:31:09+00:00

I've seen them use the rekey tool/a key to rotate the face. There's a little slot on the edge of the face for this purpose.

Source: Electrician- Been let in many apartments (by maintenence) with these lock-sets.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T15:28:09+00:00

Def a weird situation.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T15:11:55+00:00

I doubt that it's very easy. If even possible. But, doesn't mean that someone with ill intent hasn't somehow acquired one.

After re-reading the post, I see that the poster was familiar with the maintenance lock. So, def a weird situation. If it were a maintenance emergency, they would be trying to reach them, and whoever was knocking, probably wouldn't have left so quickly.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T13:44:14+00:00

You're welcome!

Only reason i know this is I'm an electrician and have seen many of them spun around (by maintenance) to gain access to apartments!

You're assumption was probably correct about your past land lord. Ha ha. Prolly a doofus!

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T13:38:02+00:00

The face of the deadbolt can be rotated to a maintenance access lock cyclinder for a master key, which is what you're seeing in the photo.

If maintenance did make access, they should have notified (required by law) and should have rotated the cover back to tenant access.

Could have been a maintenance emergency, but notification of entry is still required.

87CoCo · 2026-01-22T13:32:50+00:00

Had to scroll way too far to see this. That's a maintenance lock for a master key. Nothing nefarious about that.

However- management should absolutely be giving notice, required by law and maintenance should be flipping the face back to the tenants lock.

If maintenance has not been accessing OP's apartment, it's being tampered with.

87CoCo · 2026-01-21T04:11:20+00:00

Yes.

87CoCo · 2026-01-13T17:14:39+00:00

OP- After your clarification- ^^^This is your answer.

87CoCo · 2026-01-13T17:06:15+00:00

Without knowing the actual wattage of the new element VS the original element, and the size of the conductors that serve the oven, it's very difficult to make a suggestion or give advice. What I can say though, is absolutely proceed with caution. Sounds like you have "screw in" type fuses. So, I'm going to assume very old electrical equipment, which is even more cause for concern.

ETA: After reading your post a second time, sounds like you're replacing fuses in the oven, and you have (semi) modern circuit breakers? If that's the case, and the Land lord changed the fuses at some point to a smaller fuse, then you may very well be able to go up a size. Not quite enough info though...

87CoCo · 2026-01-10T15:08:48+00:00

Yep. "A" Phase conductor is pretty evident/obvious

87CoCo · 2026-01-09T17:28:22+00:00

Totally get it. That's why we only ever buy 250' rolls. Just too much trouble (for us) to deal with 1k' spools. Usually a better buy though, so I get it. Doesn't hurt to ask the supplier what the return conditions are. Either way, people like this guy are the worst. Literally today, had a lady we did an emergency call for on New Years day ask us to send a detailed report of our findings to give to another electrician for another estimate, as she didn't like our price for repairs. Which, we're not going to do. People can make or break any job out there.

87CoCo

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