Recent content by dimarcelli

That's a 5-15R plug wired for 240. Did you have that installed by someone? Or was it already there? Either way that should have never happened. Move the white wire for that circuit in the breaker box to the neutral bar and install a single pole 120 volt 20 amp breaker for the black wire to go...

I have some in my box but i usually only use them on fluorescent fixtures. Tan twisters for everything else.

fwiw i know the champion brand generators are made quite well. I know of one guy who has over 2000 hours on a small i think 2500 watt one. They all have cast iron cylinder liners and 100% copper windings. I have the 5000 watt model and it seems to be much more sturdier and generally built better...

I just purchased the tandem version of this light last week. I installed four of them in a 23x18 room and the lighting is excellent. The ballasts are made by accupro.

The problem with the T5HO fixtures is that installed on a low ceiling, say under ten feet, they will produce hot spots where the light is really intense in just a small area. I would say they're good fourteen feet and up.

A T8 32 watt lamp puts out 2800 lumens, and a regular T5 28 watt lamp puts out 2900 lumens. So you can see they're literally the same one just uses less power and costs more. T5HO 54 watt lamps put out 5000 lumens. Most standard residential electronic ballasts are good down to 0 F. Some...

Alright cool, thanks for all the information. I spent two weeks trying to figure out what fixtures i wanted and i think i'll go with the T8's. The guy at HD tried to get me to buy the T5 HO fixtures but i have 8 foot ceilings and from what i've read, that isn't the best.

Well the time has come to pick lights for my new shop, and i'm a bit confused when it comes to ballast volt ratings. Using the visual software, i drew up plans using 8 foot T8 lithonia fixtures. The model i used was TC 2 32 mvolt geb10is. Now i can't actually find this fixture locally but i can...

I apologize if i was wrong. The tech that came to my house installed a splitter for my phone modem stating that my signal needed to be lowered. I can see where it would be a cable company issue. I guess i just assumed that was how they corrected a high signal.

So if I understand correctly, this guy is ranting about someone using too many splitters? It's not that hard to check the signal of your cable modem. Some people actually have signals too high and they're required to use splitters to attenuate the signal so it's not so "hot".

This happened to a gfci outlet in my garage once. Something inside went bad and it wasn't providing power to the downstream fixtures. I yanked it out and replaced it.

I like 4100k personally but i know people who prefer 6500k too. Go outside on an overcast day and that's basically what 6500k looks like. I used to like 3000k bulbs but on accident I purchased some 4100k and then realized how much more i liked those. If i can remember how to white balance my...

Looks like they ran 10/3 240 and then decided to "convert" it to 120 by capping one leg and utilizing the other. That looks like a disconnect box for a double pole breaker similar to what you would use outside for an air conditioner. I don't know enough to know if that's causing your main...

Lithonia fixtures come with all different ballasts. I've seen some with keystone, sylvania and philips. I remember reading about ballasts on another discussion board one time and the general consensus was that the multi-volt ballasts were better to have. Higher ballast factor, better parts, i...

It'll be 240. Two hots, neutral and ground. For 270 feet i would go with 3/0 aluminum SER. You'll avoid a significant voltage drop with the bigger wire. Remember when installing the sub, ground and neutral bus bars are not bonded in the panel.