[SML] [spam] Re: OT: Non-Standard Wiring Revisited

[Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center]

On 10/12/2015 8:00 AM, Dale Farmer via Stagecraft wrote:
> 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

And I am guessing that as a safety factor in such public accommodations 
with who knows what bizarre things can happen it is probably safest to 
have the light socket circuit protected by the GFI.

"No your honor, I had no idea that attaching the chain on the nipple 
clamps to the electric light in our hotel bathroom could be dangerous."

</tongue in cheek >

Carla

"The problem with America is stupidity.  Now I'm not saying there should 
be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the 
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"