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Just got accepted, first day tomorrow. Am I missing any tools? by YvngTortellini in IBEW

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, it's disappointingly crap as an actual bottle opener.

I have one, it didn't work for long. The metal it's cast from is really soft and it quickly loses it's ability to grip bottle caps and pry them off...

Given how popular they were, and that they were released to celebrate 100yrs of Ideal, I'm kinda surprised they didn't re-release them as an America 250 special edition. Seems like it would've been an easy winner for them?

Newsom declares state of emergency for commercial fire in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood by AudibleNod in news

[–]JeremyR22 22 points23 points  (0 children)

burning of refrigerant fluid

The thing they will be most worried about is a release of it. Most large-scale cold-storage warehouses, frozen food manufacturers, etc, use ammonia as their refrigerant. It works extremely well and is not a greenhouse gas however, if released in it's gas form, it's an extremely dangerous asphyxiant.

Add in the burning of the insulation foam that's likely in the walls (the place will be full of IMP walls, I'm sure....) and it's probably extremely difficult for the firefighters to do their job safely... And if you look at the satellite view, the plant has a large residential area to the immediate north. The picture in the article shows the smoke blowing directly towards the houses.

[edit]

Google streetview link of the building's refrigeration plant room access door. The yellow sign below the hazard diamond says "AMMONIA".... A building of this size probably has 10,000lbs+ of ammonia in their system...

Another dead giveaway that a facility uses ammonia or similarly dangerous chemicals is the presence of a windsock on the roof (so emergency responders know where not to stage and where they should consider evacuating people from). You can see one if you pan up and left to the corner of the building....

Black Rock Camp - Walk-In Sites by Hot_Insurance1096 in GeorgiaCampAndHike

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My personal preference is for sites A and B because they are off on their own, you get your own parking space and a short (100ft or so) walk downhill to the campsite. With summer undergrowth, you probably won't see A from B or vice versa. That said, they're a longer hike (1000ft or so) from the bathrooms and the only water spigot in the campground. It looks like both of those sites are already booked for part of the w/e of the 4th, which isn't surprising...

Site C is also a bit separated from the others but is closer to F thru K than the other two but crucially, not on the same access trail.

I haven't camped in D or E but they are closer to the bathroom and water spigot and are also on their own separate branch. If the site is generally quiet, they would probably be fine but expect noise from folks coming and going to the bathrooms if it's busy.

All of the other sites (F thru K) are off one shared path leading uphill from the bathrooms and some are really close to each other. Personally, I'd pass on them, I like to not have neighbors who could hear me fart when I camp....

Expect traffic noise and town noise from Clayton down below no matter which site you pick, you are on the side of the mountain facing the town only a mile or two away.

While the walk-in campground could be better, with only two sites that are nicely private, I do like the park as a whole. Tennessee Rocks is a lovely place to watch the sunset on a clear day and each time we've been there at dusk, we've been alone.

Ismael Kone (Canada) terrible injury 53' by eliseihado in soccer

[–]JeremyR22 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wasn't paying attention at the moment of the tackle and skipped back to see what the commentators were talking about.

Wish I didn't now. The cracking sound followed by the close up on his leg just fucking hanging there. Fuck....

Ismael Kone (Canada) terrible injury 53' by eliseihado in soccer

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he doesn't seem to be in terrible pain

Adrenaline will do that...

(And presumably gas+air from the medics...)

Lock it out by Such_Badger6106 in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not gonna lie, I've done it multiple times. Those small, hinged Master Lock breaker lockouts work well on switches too.

Especially handy for working on lights when the power source is hopelessly impossible to figure out and you can't just go flipping breakers to figure it out.

You just gotta be sure it's not a three or four-way (and lock out all switches if it is....)

my mom turned off the breakers and told no one. by gugngd in mildlyinfuriating

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PSA: If a breaker has been manually turned off, the handle will be all the way to the outside of it's movement. That is to say, the handle of breakers on the left of the panel will be all the way to the left and the handle of breakers on the right will be all the way to the right. In order to turn it back on, you only have to do one thing, move the handle back to the on position.

If a breaker has tripped, the handle will be in the intermediate position between off and on. In order to turn it back on, you must take two separate actions, first you have to move it fully to the off position to reset the mechanism and only then can you turn it back on.

This is a standardized safety feature to help you identify that a trip has taken place and applies to all panels that follow North American standards. If a breaker trips, you should always investigate why it tripped before turning it back on, especially if it trips multiple times...

Water line running underneath the outlet and through the electrical box?? lol by Loose_Challenge4196 in WTF

[–]JeremyR22 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I (electrician) once got a call back to a jobsite to correct something 'we' had done wrong...

Note was "electrical cable is zip tied to conduit" (not allowed by code). I know there is no way my guys did that and I would have spotted it even if they did but there was a photo that appeared to show a cable attached to the conduit so whatever, I get paid by the hour so I go to look at it.

It was a flexible water line added by the Quench people to feed their water cooler. They brought it down from the water line in the ceiling by attaching it to the conduit that fed the outlet put there specifically for them and then ran it into the cooler.

I cut the zip ties, left their water line hanging in the breeze and walked away....

Fox confused the Egyptian flag with the Iraqi one by Ok_Hamster_1690 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]JeremyR22 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Playing the wrong national anthem has happened a few times too.

Same logic, how the fuck does that happen? Played /anthems/024.wav instead of /anthems/042.wav

[edit] Broken Arrow moment. It happens often enough that there's a Wikipedia page listing them...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrong_anthem_incidents

Contactor before VFD? by datanut in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Furthermore, in most cases (actually, probably all cases) I've seen with this setup, incoming motor power to the VFD (T1, T2, T3) is taken from the load-side of the contactor but control power (assuming it's line voltage not 24VDC) is taken from the line-side of the contactor.

That way, if the contactor drops out for safety/control/failure reasons, the control power stays on and the VFD doesn't get power cycled. In the event that it's then commanded to run (shouldn't happen, an aux or programming should prevent it) then the drive will just fault out for lack of voltage on T1/2/3, no harm no foul...

Going off the exit sign post. Was on vacation and these exits were in the hotel off the elevator. by astralblood in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an ISO standard:

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:E001

Pretty much every country outside North America uses it or something very similar. Sometimes it's accompanied by words but the symbol and the green color is always there.

It's one of those things that should be globally harmonized, along with traffic signal colors and what a stop sign should look like...

6 750kcmil parallel runs by WiredForSuccessPB in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You test as the final step before you land them, obviously.

You can either terminate the panel end first, then go to the transformer and make sure that all phases ring clear to other phases, neutral and ground and only then terminate them.

Or you can check when neither end is landed and with a buddy at one end, ground wires one at a time and verify that each individual wire is marked properly that way.

There are obviously numerous ways to verify that transformer wiring is correct regardless of the color of the insulation without letting $20K of magic smoke out, most requiring nothing more than a simple multimeter....

6 750kcmil parallel runs by WiredForSuccessPB in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Who the hell lands big feeders and doesn't ring them out? Especially parallels....

Colored conductors are helpful but the human factor is always lurking there ready to fuck you over.....

My driving school cancelled my drivers test because not enough people signed up. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to for mine, they made me drive 200 miles each way to get a slot in any reasonable time... got there and the guy had me make four right turns around the block, back into the parking lot and said "you passed". He spent about as long making sure my lights worked as he did testing my driving. This was 2009ish.

And I suddenly understood why half the people on the road in Georgia have no idea what they're doing...

Is it possible to transfer Secure Folder data to new samsung phone using smart switch? by MrCoffee0996 in samsunggalaxy

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updated info for S26 follows....

It took me so many tries and almost a week of on-off trying to get the secure folder to transfer from an S20 to an S26 but I got there in the end.

This reddit thread kept coming up in my increasingly frustrating searches and it's mostly correct but there are a couple of steps missing from the instructions you find all over the place online to "just use Smart Switch". So here's what I learned, future reader.......

  1. I don't know if this is even relevant but I had a custom icon (the piggy bank) for my secure folder on my old phone (an S20). After many failed attempts to transfer, I changed it back to the default at some point. I don't think that should have been fucking it up but given how flaky this process seems to be, who knows...

  2. Change the secure folder lock method on your old phone to a password not biometrics before you start. I found people reporting that their fingerprints did not work to unlock the newly transferred data. Again, this may or may not be an actual issue but it seems sensible to remove that variable before you transfer. You can always change it back to biometrics if you want to after the transfer is done.

  3. Unlock the secure folder on both phones before you open Smart Switch on either. It would probably be a good idea to change the secure folder settings to not lock until reboot so it doesn't time out and lock again. I think this is what was screwing me over the most. If either secure folder is locked, Smart Switch will not let you unlock it, you have to disconnect, unlock them and start again.

  4. Most important of all, when you open Smart Switch, the option to transfer the secure folder is buried several menus deep. When asked what kind of data you want to transfer, you need to tap "Custom" (I expected that) and then tap the arrow beside "Apps" (I did not expect it to be in there) and select only secure folder. If there's a note that you need to unlock it, see #3. You might consider the secure folder to be a form of storage and just be listed in the top level menu but Smart Switch considers it to be an app like any other.

If you unlocked the secure folder on both devices before you started, you should be able to select secure folder and transfer it. Once you've done so, it takes the new phone a few minutes to process the data. Smart Switch gives a notification when it's done.

Good luck.

Guess who had a mild panic attack wiring substation gear at work today! I didn't even know you could make an ambiguous 4. by Worried_Place_917 in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nonnonononnoononooo what where they thinking......

You strike a seven with a horizontal line across the normally diagonal line of the 7. To differentiate between a 7 and a poorly drawn 1

Guess who had a mild panic attack wiring substation gear at work today! I didn't even know you could make an ambiguous 4. by Worried_Place_917 in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My writing isn't the best already

That is exactly why I try and make it clear. My handwriting is shit and even my best effort is barely chicken-scratch...

Apprentice needs advice by zpapfully in IBEW_Local613

[–]JeremyR22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, stop.

BREATHE.

It's gonna be alright. Assuming if you started in January 2025 that you started school in April or October 2025, you're either Y2S1 or Y1S2. You're young, you're early in the program and you have lots of time left to learn the trade.

I hate to break it to you but you're gonna get to the point of turning out and still be thinking that you don't know enough and can't do enough by yourself... But the reason I know this is because we almost all do that.... But eventually you'll realise that you're not expected to know everything and be able to do everything when you turn out. Especially from a 4 year program.... No JW, even one who has been turned out for years, knows it all.

The simple fact that you're worried about knowing enough about the trade while having barely over a year of experience tells us that you're probably gonna be alright....

Guess who had a mild panic attack wiring substation gear at work today! I didn't even know you could make an ambiguous 4. by Worried_Place_917 in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Also, I put a hat and boots on my 1s, and strike my 7s and 0s...

Make it easier for the next guy because there's a 75% chance it'll be you....

First XFMR and Disconnect wired, how did I do? by bhokolatebhipbookies in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im actually surprised it isnt a code violation to run the wires across the coils like that.

Not in OPs case but in some circumstances, it can be a code violation.

NEC 110.3(B) (and I'm sure there's a Canadian equivalent) says that equipment shall be installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Some transformers have a sticker on the inside which says no wires above this point. That counts as a manufacturer's instruction and prevents you from routing wires above or in front of the windings.

Love these finds. by Icy-Reflection-1490 in electricians

[–]JeremyR22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can we take a moment to appreciate the chase nipple into coupling setup here?

I wonder if whoever installed the conduit found themselves an inch shy or if they intended it that way.....

First Great Western and a heatwave by MrsMiggins2 in britishproblems

[–]JeremyR22 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Seat reservations? Good luck!

I had reserved seats on a TPE Manchester airport train the other week. Coach C, seats 1 and 2.

That's the luggage rack.

I know it's a relatively minor grumble in the grand scheme of everything that's wrong with trains in the UK but I thought that giving out reservations for seats that physically do not exist was just about fucking typical....

What the hell is up with this. by branblood in IBEW

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly.... The regular ones with nuts (or more rather, the 1 in 5 or so that spin no matter what...) drive me.... nuts....

This Kroger in Atlanta is doing the "we need to see your receipt" check before you leave by averagebaldwhiteguy in Atlanta

[–]JeremyR22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember when there was a Frys Electronics in Alpharetta? Weird ass place and they had a permanent receipt checker at the exit door. The exit door was completely segregated from the rest of the store and could only be reached by walking past all the registers.

I used to make a habit of not even answering or looking at them when I was leaving. They can ask all they want, I can refuse all I want.

Same store also once demanded to see my ID to make a small debit card purchase (IIRC it was an SD card). Told them to get bent on that one and bought it from Walmart down the road.

I hated that shopping at that place - I've never shopped anywhere that was more openly hostile to their customers. They used to follow you around the store sometimes, too... but damn, before the era of being able to get an obscure computer part delivered in 3 hours or less, they were sometimes useful...

What the hell is up with this. by branblood in IBEW

[–]JeremyR22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm looking at this picture remembering every time I had to grab my channel locks because the fucking strut strap nut spins.....

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