Bluebinky
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Hasn't this died down yet?
I too have a piece of paper that says how wonderful I am -- BSEE from University of Washington. The funny thing is, I think I forgot more while at the U than I learned. I wired my first light switch when I was 6 years old...
As JW was busy quoting the NEC, I was Googling for dictionary definitions and reading Wikipedia, etc. After filtering out all the fluff, the one "definition" that stood out said something like "a short bypasses part of a circuit".
I don't agree that a short is always unintentional -- if you intentionally set a crescent wrench on a car battery that would be a short in my book (don't do that BTW).
I roomed in a house once that you needed to turn off three breakers to kill anything and everything. Wonder if it's still there.
I too have a piece of paper that says how wonderful I am -- BSEE from University of Washington. The funny thing is, I think I forgot more while at the U than I learned. I wired my first light switch when I was 6 years old...
As JW was busy quoting the NEC, I was Googling for dictionary definitions and reading Wikipedia, etc. After filtering out all the fluff, the one "definition" that stood out said something like "a short bypasses part of a circuit".
I don't agree that a short is always unintentional -- if you intentionally set a crescent wrench on a car battery that would be a short in my book (don't do that BTW).
I roomed in a house once that you needed to turn off three breakers to kill anything and everything. Wonder if it's still there.