Am electrician and live in a double-wide so I haven’t tinkered with it beyond swapping some devices. Feels good to be able to just do stuff like this, as simple as it is. I was not raised to be very handy so learning all this has been a deliberate process.
Uh, this doesn’t count as a legal, professional consultation and you should always seek a licensed professional when it comes to electricity in your home.
Words cannot express my hatred for these things but I’ll try.
My trade is regulated, in the US, by the National Electrical Code, which is written by Underwriters Laboratories, and created in accordance with the National Fire Prevention Act. The Code is a massive tome of a book that I tabbed, BY HAND, before I ever wired a device. I spent literal years in classrooms and on the job, going fetch, digging literal ditches, etc, to get here. I’m a smart guy and the test I had to pass? It took me two attempts, I won’t lie to you. But I got it. Safety regulations are written in blood. And why is it this hard?
Because electricity is an invisible death force that starts fires while your family sleeps. I know, I’ve had a house fire in the middle of the night, in a rental, with my young child at home. Nothing makes you respect it like that will. This was years before I got into the trade but I never forget it.
You think the hungover dingus Clayton Homes hired to make these atrocities up cares half as much as I do?
For anyone curious, it takes .1 of an amp (is it .01? I haven’t worked with electricity in like 2 years) to instantly stop your heart. You may have noticed up there that @[email protected] mentioned that wire can rump 20 amps.
Electricity will kill you before you even know “I shouldn’t have touched that”
That is accurate, if it crosses your heart. It takes very little to throw you arhthmmatic and people have died from heart attacks they didn’t see coming because they didn’t take home-level voltage seriously enough.
Yall should obviously never ever ever work live. Ever. Call me instead, that’s what I get paid for. Im kidding, never work live if you don’t have to. And you never have to.