Subj : Light Switch Replacement
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Dec 22 2024 06:59:00


Hi Mike!

 >  MP> At least I now know that I need to turn off 2 or 3 breakers to
 >  MP> get the whole house.  ;)
 > But ther there's that one remote breaker to shut the lights off in the
 > room with the service panel!
 MP> That would be covered by the "or 3."  :)  I have a chart on the
 MP> wall next to the box.

LIS I have a notebook with the chart and anything associated with the
service panel (like the whole house surge suppressor).  The listings are
good, just don't trust them 100%.


 > ...Sort of throwing this in: when the electricians were here rewiring the
 > house (from four-fuses-two-circuit-breakers to a panel with I think 20
 > breakers) I did ask how my wiring jobs were -- I had added/modified some
 > circuits (the basement lights used to be on an always-on circuit, turn
 > on/off with pull strings, now on a switch) and to try to balance the
 > loads I had moved some portions of circuits.  The washer and [gas] dryer
 > were originally on one of the four fuses - don't do laundry with some
 > other function!  Remember those two breakers?  Were added when a previous
 > owner added the Dining/Family Room -- one breaker for the DR, the other
 > to a single outlet in the DR! That was all: one outlet!  I moved the
 > washer and dryer to that outlet!
 MP> I have never got "brave" enough to change any circuits on my
 MP> own... not yet anyway.  ;)

That's good too!  You know your limitations.  I feel reasonably
comfortable with 120v but that 240 stuff -- triple- and quadruple-check!


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