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Re: Oversized overtall chimney?
I see
My mistake. I should've known better with you, I was surprised.
ChrisJ
Re: Oversized overtall chimney?
That is just mean Chris. I know of many professionals that are incompetent! I trained several of them to competency before they went into business for themselves. At which time they became incompetent businessmen.
Re: Biological control for filler station
Yes, chloramine is very common. Has some real advantages, but… its not something the ordinary Joe can go to a store and buy, and certainly not something to make on site! So… bleach.
I might note in passing that the suggested concentration is a lot lower than a swimming pool. But swimming pools have contamination problems which folks don't like to mention but surely do exist!
Re: Biological control for filler station
Ah yes. Google knows everything… don't mind us.
Re: The “Good Deed”
yes, it was a fluke,
I can’t quite tell if Ed was being sarcastic. He went on and on about how to shut a switch off. Fantastic advice though
GW
Re: The “Good Deed”
OK GW…. there is this thing called a power switch that you can toggle off and on in order to make the chance of letting factory installed smoke out of transformers. They are very easy to operate. For the most part if the electrician did his job properly, you just toggle the handle to the down position before you put your screwdriver inside the control. here is an example of what the switch might look like.
Hope this helps you in the future.
Sincerely
Mr. Ed.
Re: How much does size matter?
Need to start a mailing list for your spicy jokes. 'Ed Young: Too Hot For The Wall"
GGross
The “Good Deed”
We have a customer with an early 2000s boiler. It’s been going in and out, every time we go the system is running. Or they cancel the call. They want a price for a new system.
I get there yesterday, they asked me about replacement: why it’s necessary. I say it’s not necessary, if the boiler is not leaking, we can keep on repairing it
I walk up to the boiler, no hot water in the indirect. No codes on the integrated control board. I jump the TT at the boiler, it fires.
I trace it back to a loose connection at the Taco; the wire itself is dropping in and out. I thought I’ll be the hero and get them going, even though my role was sales/estimating at that moment.
The low-voltage line gets away from me, drops right into the line voltage term—-Bang
The transformer hisses like I’ve never seen, like there was a serpent in there. I replaced the transformer, flip the tripped breaker back on, and another pop. The integrated control board gets hammered.
Great, I’m trying to help these people and I just throttled myself into the ground.
Thankfully, I’ve got an old friend/customer that knows circuitry very well. I call him up at quarter after five, he says come on by. He looks at it and says it’s gonna take me a couple hours, “I’ll call you when it’s done”
I go over there around 8 o’clock. Pick up the board. He says “I can’t guarantee it’s gonna work but give it a try”
Today I pop it in, it lights up like a champ.
Does anybody else have any “good deeds getting punished” stories?
I can’t believe I’ve been doing it this long and I’ve never gotten in trouble with a low-voltage to line voltage short. Lesson learned.
GW