Yup. One of my arborist friends was a bit reckless (very, very good, but I thought he took unnecessary risks). Whenever he would see me, he’d hold up his left hand, to show he still had all his fingers, because I’d always tell him he’d lose one.

Not sure which of us was in the wrong. He made very good money.

I remember some electricians, working on our lighting system, at work.

They worked on live (320 Volts) fixtures. Never bothered to kill the circuit breaker.

I’ve found that pro tools tend to look pretty scruffy, while amateur tools tend to look shiny.

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relaxing a day ago | parent | next [-]

320V circuit eh?

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ChrisMarshallNY a day ago | parent [-]

That’s what I was told.

Apparently, our building had a certain kind of wiring.

I was also told it was pretty common.

Might not be exactly 320, but it was over 300 (not 240).

I'm told it's common in many industrial/office buildings.

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gavinheavyside 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably 230v three phase, 230v RMS would be around 330v peak

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relaxing 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably 230 and OP is not qualified to be speaking about it.

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> OP is not qualified to be speaking about it I know that was supposed to be an insult, but it's actually true. I don't mind at all. Not my wheelhouse. I'm just repeating what the electrician told me, verbally, about twenty years ago. I wasn't actually that interested, at the time, so it's expected that my memory of it is terrible. There's all sorts of stuff I ain't qualified to write about, and I'm not embarrassed in the least, to say so. That's one of the reasons I hang out here. I suspect that it was 277 volts. I'm pretty sure that's a thing. I'm sorta sure that he said 300-something, but, as was noted above, he may have been just using the most impressive number he could find, or he was talking about the tolerances of the switches. I'll bet that it came up, because we were discussing the budget he was charging my department, and I probably had a question about the stuff he was ordering. Otherwise, I don't see why it would have interested me. I've learned to leave contractors alone, while they work. The reason that I knew they were working on live wires, was because the lights turned on, as I was walking past, and there was a slight spark in the box he was tweaking.

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closewith a day ago | parent | prev [-]

To paraphrase your comment, you're easily impressed by reckless behaviour and mistake it for expertise.

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY a day ago \| parent [-]
		Listen, you didn't like the LARP comment, and you're right. I apologize. Let's just bury the hatchet, eh?