[SML] OT: Non-Standard Wiring Revisited

[Dale Farmer]

On 10/12/2015 10:50 AM, Ray Gibson via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> On Oct 8, 2015 2:53 PM, "Dave Vick via Stagecraft"
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net <mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
>  >
>  > So I just checked into our hotel in Reno (Harrah's, if you must
>  > know)...  Got up to the room and began
>
> I know I'm really late to the thread here but since it's still going...
> I wanted to add that my suite at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas had the same
> wiring scheme, and I also had to poosh the button on my arrival before
> the bathroom lights world work. So, it's not limited to dirty old Reno
> apparently.
>
> Ray
>

I suspect that nearly every hotel room in america has the same wiring 
scheme.  The original design runs a circuit to the bathroom, it runs the 
outlet and the light.   They retrofit GFCIs to the outlet, and it's the 
happenstance of the design if the light comes ahead of the GFCI or after.

--Dale