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

[Dale Farmer]

On 10/12/2015 2:58 PM, Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center via Stagecraft 
wrote:
> 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?"
>
>
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  We had the harness attached to it all weekend without a problem. "

  --Dale