What did you accomplish today?

raratt

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Still working though. Just put up the first can light trim. It’s an easy one but you gotta start somewhere. I got 29 gimbal ones on the vaulted ceilings i’m getting warmed up for. Somewhere around 55 of them total. Just in the house! Shit loads on the exterior lids too
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the fire sprinkler guy, my buddy, comes tomorrow to do all his finish crap
Still waiting to score a bunch of arc fault breakers i need so my brother or me can finally finish powering shit up
Home Depot up there doesn't have them?
 

Aeroknow

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Home Depot up there doesn't have them?
Nope. Only the gfi/af
Home Depot up there doesn't have them?
nope. Only the afci/gfci combined ones.
I like gfi protecting the circuits they need to. Where you can trip the outlet within the room the gfi tripped. Those circuits also need arc fault protection per 2019 code. You really don’t want them both on a combo breaker. You can, but i’d rather not. Plus ALL the other circuits that do not need gfci protection.
they now make arc fault trippin outlets, like your regular old gfi outlets that you can put in on the first outlet of a circuit but no thanks.
 

Aeroknow

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@raratt to make it more fucked up.
Eaton/cutler hammer type panels that take BR breakers they have two different types now. A plug on type which is newer. The neutral is also brought down in between the buss bar and where the breakers clip in. Those BRP afci breakers click on to that extra neutral bar, simplifying the wiring in the panel. You don’t need to run the hot and the neutral to the breaker AND and the white curly wire off the breaker to the neutral bar like the “older” ones

those breakers are fucking impossible to source right now. You can still use the other ones on the newer eaton panels though. I’m still trying to score those older ones. Fucking covid.
 

raratt

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@raratt to make it more fucked up.
Eaton/cutler hammer type panels that take BR breakers they have two different types now. A plug on type which is newer. The neutral is also brought down in between the buss bar and where the breakers clip in. Those BRP afci breakers click on to that extra neutral bar, simplifying the wiring in the panel. You don’t need to run the hot and the neutral to the breaker AND and the white curly wire off the breaker to the neutral bar like the “older” ones

those breakers are fucking impossible to source right now. You can still use the other ones on the newer eaton panels though. I’m still trying to score those older ones. Fucking covid.
What are Homeline boxes?
 

raratt

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I am a lowes and home depot shopper :-( i should be sponsored by both.
When i just dropped off my truck in YC i also went to HD and lowes. Its non-stop

i got the breakers i needed coming soon from my local elec distributor
Good thing I never did this for a living...lol. I guess if I did I would know that stuff though.
 

Aeroknow

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I wish we had a hd close enough to just pick it up. No Lowes here too.
When i was up in paradise i could drive right down to Chico and figure shit out between the two plus we had a killer ACE hardware up there. The town i live in now only has a HD and a smaller ACE hardware. So i gotta drive to either chico or another town to catch em both and get, usually, everything i need.
 

Aeroknow

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Mother fucker son a bitch cunting whore bastard fucker.
I just checked amazon. They got them right now. Fucking joke. Fuckers were trying to get 75-100 per i sware to god just a few days ago when i tried last. Wow
Thats a good price too. I just paid 50 per. And thats with elec distributer shops rape you
@raratt combo means just that the afci protects in 4-5 different ways. Not to be confused with the ones that do both dual functions afci and gfci
 

DarkWeb

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When i was up in paradise i could drive right down to Chico and figure shit out between the two plus we had a killer ACE hardware up there. The town i live in now only has a HD and a smaller ACE hardware. So i gotta drive to either chico or another town to catch em both and get, usually, everything i need.
I have a small ace. And a bunch of really nice lumber yards......but $$$$$ Anything else is online.
 
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