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After 3 or 4 tokes, I figured out how to keep the grow lights in the pot shed from tripping the circuit breaker.

This emergency circuit must remain on at all times....

Redneck Lock out Tag Out.

And like most redneck ideas, the implementation is bass ackward. The breaker is locked ON.

But that was explained in an earlier post for the grow house.

It makes sense.

No, that hillbilly wants to make sure he get the "job" done. Apparently, right before receiving the Darwin Award.

Most billhillies I know are not reverse threaded. That looks like what an Okie Christmas Light feed circuit anti-trip device looks like. Did he have to drill out that freaking breaker lever?

All of the maintenance operators here at least know lefty loosy, righty tighty.

"Most billhillies I know are not reverse threaded."

Being a city boy, the only hillbillies I see are the ones who make the news. And they rarely make the news for GOOD things. So the urban view of the 'mountain folk' is a bit skewed due to a 'pre-filtered' data set.

"Did he have to drill out that freaking breaker lever?"

No, those lever action breakers come with the hole pre-drilled, not for this purpose, but for the easy assembly of 'ganged breakers' in the factory, where one tripped breaker in the gang opens the whole set. It just makes sense to have one mold for the breaker lever than to have a 'hole' lever for ganged and 'no hole' lever for non-ganged. The extra hole in the 'non-ganged' breaker doesn't hurt anything...

...well, except in this case.

So then, now who is the hillbilly, and who is the "normal" guy?

If it were not for the hillbillies of this world, you "smart" guys wouldn't have any work to do.

The hillbillies invent all the good stuff: White lightning, Nascar, Thunder Road, various other kinds of smuggling, contraband, and other smooth inventions such as gas turbines made out of aluminum sheet metal. You guys get to put out the "fars".

I never said Hillbillies weren't fun, and besides, my great-grandfather on my mother's side was a Moonshiner from Louisiana, if I've got the right state. That's why I'm a Chicagoan, Great-Grandpa decided to take a trip Up North for his health and for tax reasons. In other words, he fled the state before the revenuers could find his still.

Although I just don't get the point of NASCAR. I understand its origins from the days of rum-running, but the current incarnation just makes no sense:

"When you get to that curve, you turn left, then left again, then you'll go straight for a ways then you'll be turning left and then left again. Soon you'll pass where we are, and I want you to keep going until you get to that curve, where you'll turn left..."

"Hey, boss, did you know this wheel also turns to the RIGHT?"

"Now that there's just crazy-talk and you best get it out of your head right now. ... Turning to the right, who would ever need to do that?"

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If the NASCAR track was a winding path, with carefully sculpted 'rough ground' in the tarmac, and the course narrowing at points, and had big, sturdy poles in the ground to simulate dodging trees, THEN it would look like a celebration of what made the rum-runners heroes. All we'd need would be a few spectators each race going blind from contaminated moonshine, then we'd have a PARTY!

Dam! I cant remember why I did that?

John: "I'll take the dominatrix. Room 2?"

Madam: "She's moved. Check the breakers."

Gone are the days when a simple penny did the trick.

Well, that's an interesting piece of wiring.

And that my friends, is how you properly ground your breaker switch.

Functionally speaking, this Breaker is Broken.

Although, now my Inner Engineer is curious; would this actually work?

When this style of breaker trips, the internal contacts disconnect, and the external lever moves to an upright position. In this state, pushing the lever to the 'on' side does nothing, and the lever springs back to 'up.' The lever needs to be moved to the 'off' side before it will close the contacts when moved to the 'on' side.'

Would locking the lever to the 'on' side prevent the contacts from disconnecting, or does it merely 'hide' the tripped breaker from visual inspection?

No, that breaker is closed. Even if tripped it is closed, and not re-settable.

Thank you for that fine eulogy. Breaker #6 will be missed by all.

Please bow your heads while we have a moment of silence,... and darkness and reflect on Breaker #6 life.

Revolting to be insulated from the world like that. Watts the world coming to, eh?

20 Ampere Fuse holder!

Wife: "Honey, why does the power keep going out when I blow dry my hair in the bath tub?"

Husband/Widower: "Try it now..."

Used the wrong wire gauge!

The warning labels are loosing...DARWIN LIVES!

TcmTech was not about to let his tire-burning furnace go out in this stormy weather.

Should this qualify as a ''manual over-ride'' ?...

Breaker breaker there good buddy...
Del

This here's the Rubber Ducky . . . .

The reverse of lock-out / tag-out is lock-in / fry out!

But the book said that 12 gauge wire is good for 20 amps... so it meets code!

So 12G is capable of harnessing a 20A load or load breaker?..

Have you ever said "I seen my duty and I did it"?

McGyver's method of increasing the short circuit current rating of a breaker.

THIS is why I subscribe, for the neat tricks of the trade!