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Still deciding on how I'm going to mount the lights, but I laid them all out on the floor approx. where they'll go (need to find the 'perfect' layout that I drew up at work last week that has the measurements on it). With a little bit of work, I ended up with 10 working flourescents out of the...

Yeah, I forgot to bring the camera down with me when I took the dog out for a walk yesterday; I'll snap some pics this weekend. Met with the electrician at lunch time, got the shopping list for the rest of the items that I need to buy, and he'll be back with his helper next Friday morning to do...

Swung by Menards after work last night and returned about $40 worth of stuff that I didn't need (hate buying stuff that I know I have packed in a box somewhere, luckily I stumbled across a few items); picked up a flourescent dawn-to-dusk light for the man door and a roll of 8-3 for my welder...

I'm in Lexington, OH

The four metal halide cnopy lights arrived yesterday, unfortunately the seller didn't screw the cover shut on one of them, so the reflector popped loose and broke the bulb on that one. I started cleaning them up last night and tested one of the units with two of the bulbs (they were wired for...

Ebbs & flows. Sometimes I get a bunch of pure junk, other times I get loads of goodies. I usually grab any decent switches that I see and put them to the side.

It's like being in a crack house for geeks ;) It seems like I bring something home every other day.

Figures they wait until about the time that the concrete guys stop pouring...

Being inspected by Richland County. I'm using the non-burial cable since I already had spools of it, just putting it in conduit.

Thanks Truck. If I still lived in IL or NJ, I would have done it myself...I could've used that $8k+ that the builder got for other things. Spent most of the afternoon out there today. Mounted the primary boxes for each of my 5 receptacle circuits (just putting those 5 GFCI's in for inspection...

Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely be taking advantage of that. Electrician will be out on Friday afternoon to figure out what we need and I should have the meter base (scored off Ebay for $30) and metal halide lights (scored off Ebay for $50 apiece...they're the square ones that you see on the...

Lookin' good, Truck.

Electrican was a no show. Going to give him a call today to find out what's going on (I've *never* been so busy that I blew off a job...you could be sitting home with nothing to do and no money next month). The builder took care of the missing nails & screws and put in the braces that the...

Very nice. I should've had the Amish build mine...I could've afforded to finish my heating system and buy a lift. I'm at about $30k before electrical (had an extra $3k or so in site prep since I ended up building on a slope due to zoning restrictions, I went 15' on the wall height, and I ran my...

And that's just the basic ones @ $30-35. When it's time for new gear, they just toss everything. Sometimes I get racks in with a UPS or two in the bottom, a couple of 4-5 year old servers, and KVM with drawer mounted LCD & keyboard. Sometimes I even get stuff that's still new in the box.

You'd cry if you saw the stuff that goes through the shredder and gets sold off for pennies a pound. I try to save what I think I can use...you can imagine the sorts of goodies I have around my house. Unfortunately, the contract with the company that we get most of the stuff from forbids selling...

Most DIY'ers just grab a box of stranded off the shelf at Home Depot. Good point, though. Excellent suggestion & something that I do too. Hehehe...you don't want to know how much of that stuff comes through here either. I've got tons of them.

Definitely have to look at your particular setup to determine if structured is the way to go. I've thought about doing it, but in the end it just doesn't make much sense for me. I have DirecTV and the dish is mounted next to the top of the chimney. Since DTV does it's own splitting outside, 2...

I'm in rural Ohio too and am getting ready to do the lighting on my new pole barn. The metal halide lights (usually with dawn/dusk sensors) look to be the popular choice around here. I actually found a couple w/sensors at work (e-recycler) that are missing the bulbs that will probably end up on...

Hmmm...just got several skids of UPSs & servers in yesterday...thinking maybe I should head over to the shredder and do a little pruning. I hope by 'headed to the trash' you mean headed to the e-recycler (can you guess where I work?) ;)