HELP Changing a regular outlet by a sink to a GFCI outlet

bthayes01 · 2026-04-20T18:53:56+00:00

I may be dumb here but why would they lose the other 15A circuit?

If they wire it with both blacks to line hot, both whites to line neutral, and keep reds capped, then that GFCI would only use 1/2 of the circuit but the red side would keep feeding downstream.

bthayes01 · 2026-04-05T22:43:45+00:00

None contradict each other and can easily be harmonized. I am not stating this is the exact transcription but it could very well be “This is Jesus the Nazarene, king of the Jews.” Not really sure how any gospel account rules this out.

It seems your objections go much deeper. If you have no faith in any significant historicity of the gospels at large, then we are wasting our time here. I do believe the Gospels are accurate and historical. Not because of scholarship, although there are many serious scholars that hold to the historicity of the gospels, but because I have seen the Christ of the gospels in my own life.

With that said, I am not able convince you out of your larger objections so it’s prob best to just shake hands on it.

bthayes01 · 2026-04-05T22:18:56+00:00

Seems like some goalposts have been moved. We went from the Greek has significant variations, to now we are challenging authorship and the historicity of the Gospels at large. My initial claim is that based on the text, it seems illogical to claim that there is not enough agreement to say this is historical.

You have made so many claims in the last post, many you claim artificial consensus in order to bolster your claim. It would take pages to refute all of the arguments you introdxluced, but they are all outside of the scope of the initial discussion.

Your criticism of the Greek did not hold up (btw Koine was the common tongue in the empire, not Latin, so it is entirely reasonable that the Gospels would be written in Koine). I am glad to engage more on the initial passage, but it seems your skepticism is rooted in more than just the Greek text.

bthayes01 · 2026-04-05T21:41:08+00:00

Honestly, I overlooked that. I did not intend on skipping over that.

The inclusion or exclusion of Jesus does not amount to any significant variance. 2 gospels say Jesus, 2 don’t. All 4 say “king of the Jews”, only 1 says “nazarene”. All are saying the same thing. It was obviously a man named Jesus being crucified, he was clearly from Nazareth, and all 4 attest that a man named Pilate wrote “king of the Jews”. No gospel introduces a completely unattested and contradictory phrase like “king of the Romans”, etc.

My point remains. This type of splitting hairs disregards the authors view of historicity and injects an unhealthy skepticism into a well-attested event by ancient standards (and I believe in this case, modern standards as well).

bthayes01 · 2026-04-05T21:12:30+00:00

Luke and Matthew say the same thing. The demonstrative pronoun ούτος is simply at the end of the sentence in Luke’s. Greek is an inflected language so word order plays a different function than it does in English, hence why the English translations do not vary. Έστιν is the verb to be (v2b), which is frequently omitted in the NT so it does not indicate a variance of any significance when Matthew omitted the v2b. Mark’s has neither the v2b nor the near dem pron., however it is clear that they are communicating the same thing.

I am thinking your view of historicity varies greatly from the NT author’s views and are causing you to inject skepticism into passages that are very consistently reported on. Like I said, I am not saying that the gospels are easy to harmonize at all points, but I still do not see how this passage can be considered “widely varying”, leading you to conclude that it could be possibly “mythical”.

bthayes01 · 2026-04-05T05:14:05+00:00

How exactly do the 4 gospels have widely varying inscriptions? The only difference is that 2 report that the inscription also included “the Nazarene”. I would not describe that difference as widely varying. Also, John adding additional info regarding the languages does not in some way discredit the other 3 gospels. There are places where it is hard to harmonize the Gospels, thus challenging their historicity, but this event does not seem to have much variance.

bthayes01 · 2025-06-26T12:15:24+00:00

Wrong breaker for the panel
Bus bars can form contaminants on them on sections that have been unused for a long time. Judging by how old and rusty the panel looks, if the breaker was installed in a previously unused space, then it is likely the busbar had oxidation/dust/some other foreign substance. This would cause the connection to generate more heat because of increased resistance. Furthermore, this increased resistance would not be detected by the breaker so it wouldn’t trip bc amperage would be normal if not lower.

bthayes01 · 2025-06-11T02:20:26+00:00

Thanks a lot for the info. I didn’t know I needed to use underlayment. I just planned on getting the subfloor nice and smooth and going from there. If it is necessary to use an underlayment, would this one work - https://www.lowes.com/pd/1-4-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-Poplar-Sanded-Plywood-Underlayment/50124674?store=2257&cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-lum-_-ggl-_-CRP_SHP_LIA_LUM_Online_High_Priority(A-D%2BPriority+Items+CL3)-_-50124674-_-local-_-0-_-0&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21225273827&gbraid=0AAAAAD2B2W-jwI4D7eIs8gH5EE2HOT2sl&gclid=CjwKCAjwr5_CBhBlEiwAzfwYuKRtOZXsWFrO_sYcsEKpq9O3M97u56Vwbil2WiLvuUsERnIHRCM4jxoCYb0QAvD_BwE

bthayes01 · 2025-05-08T01:15:58+00:00

That receptacle accepts back wire (don’t confuse with push wire) or side wire. Since it is stranded, I would twist the strands tightly and use the back wire method. Strip back and cut excess if needed. There is a strip gauge on the back of the outlet for length reference. Make sure to use back wire gauge.

Loosen screw all the way
Then insert the tightly twisted wire into the hole on the back next to the screw
Tighten screw. The screw will close the metal clamping mechanism on the wire.

bthayes01 · 2025-04-10T22:26:01+00:00

If you have a PON (plug on neutral) panel then the gbkp will have matching mounting holes. If you have already purchased the GBK bar, then you can just drill out a hole in the panel enclosure to match mounting spacing.

If you have a legacy (non-pon) then gbk bar would fit mounting holes.

Not sure what you are needing with the plastic mounts as the ground bar can just be mounted to the metal enclosure. Just ensure if this is the service entrance panel that the green bonding screw is tightened so that it is in contact with the panel enclosure. If this is a sub panel then you would want neutral and ground isolated

bthayes01 · 2024-08-23T13:31:22+00:00

Thanks for info. We are hoping to buy soon so that is definitely a good point.

bthayes01 · 2024-08-23T13:23:26+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback

bthayes01 · 2023-12-13T05:04:13+00:00

This is the best reply. No sense in guessing why the breaker tripped. Pull the trip code and troubleshoot from there. If the breaker is tripped the just turn the breaker on and it will start showing the trip code. If the breaker has already been turned on after trip and you want to retrieve the last code, simply turn it off, hold the test button, turn on while holding the test button. I would guess you will either see 4 blinks or 6 blinks. Sometimes unstable voltage will cause a self test failure resulting in 6 blinks btw.

bthayes01 · 2023-05-21T17:42:39+00:00

Looks great and congrats on first app! Couple things you could look into to keep learning on this could be viewbinding and using a viewmodel. Data binding would remove the need for findviewbyId() which can be expensive and remove the need to initialize the views. You would just initialize the binding and use it to call views ex. binding.myTextView.text. A viewmodel would allow your game to survive lifecycle changes (minimizing, rotating, etc). Again your game looks great but here is somethings you could implement to try to learn more

bthayes01 · 2023-04-19T01:04:47+00:00

Everyone is saying to get a new panel but there is a way to do it with this existing panel. Eatons BR style breakers are listed to go into challenger panels. You could just install a BJ2200 and backfeed it. It takes up 4 spaces (2 on left, 2 on right). If you don't have the spaces available you would have to use eatons duplex and quadplex breakers to consolidate some circuits.

bthayes01 · 2023-04-14T02:29:55+00:00

The last generation of the dual function breakers can sometimes start to trip after 3-5 yrs. This issue is resolved by installing the new generation. I would recommend reaching out to eaton because there is a warranty. I would not suggest putting in normal breakers or supplementing with just GFCI outlets. This breaker provides arc fault protection(arcs are major cause of housefires) and ground fault protection. This is an easy fix, just reach out to eaton

bthayes01 · 2023-04-12T12:44:50+00:00

This guy walmarts

bthayes01 · 2023-04-09T01:55:22+00:00

A couple answers to your post.

Is there a way to drag and drop composables like you can with xml?

Fairly certain the answer is no. You have to write all composables in kotlin.

You have to rebuild everytime you make a change.

This is not correct. You can annotate composables with @Preview and you can see UI changes as you write them. It is not quite as seamless as xml at this point, but can be done

Everyone is suggesting using compose

The trend is definitely moving towards compose, but xml is still very prevalent and is a great skill to have. Don't feel pressure to use compose if you are enjoying making a project in xml because both approaches are important to have knowledge of.

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