Big John T
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This will give you a good laugh. We get called out after hours to a plant and the life blood system for that plant is down. They have a burned up power supply. We get there and start checking and the power supply for the process and the 1746-P2 are both burned up. We find another power supply and a P2 from our shop and start going back together. While we are checking things out and adding some needed fuse protection I listen to the master electrician jabbering. He recounts that when he found the breaker it was hooked to 3 machines so being a good fellow he goes to the supply store and gets another breaker and splits the load up by moving the panel to it's own breaker. When he flips the breaker on it trips at once. When he walked around to the panel there was smoke billowing out if it. He is saying that it must have been an old power supply that just gave it up. After we get it all tested out and running again it's real late at night. So we go home to get some rest. About 3am I sit up in my bed and smack my forehead and say I know what happened! Then I go back to sleep.
The next morning we go back down to the plant and trace the conduit to the panel. When we open the panel door the following warning in red is printed on inside.
WARNING DO NOT HOOK 120 TO RED PHASE
RED PHASE IS THE HIGH LEG!
To listen to this guy talk he knows everthing and did everything an electrician could do. Guess he can't read...
John
The next morning we go back down to the plant and trace the conduit to the panel. When we open the panel door the following warning in red is printed on inside.
WARNING DO NOT HOOK 120 TO RED PHASE
RED PHASE IS THE HIGH LEG!
To listen to this guy talk he knows everthing and did everything an electrician could do. Guess he can't read...
John
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