the emergency lighting should be on the same branch circuit supplying the lighting in the area the emergency lights serve. You dont want them on a seperate circuit as it is possible to lose the lighting circuit (ex: ballast fails and trips the breaker) and be left in the dark since the emergency lights still see AC power because theyre on their own circuit
Do you use "emergency" lighting ?????
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nissan_crawler
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THought I would post up since I just put one in, it's not perfect, but is enough to get a tool shut down and get to the house door/breaker box:
nadogail
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No, I don't yet have any installed Emergency Lights. I do not own tire chains or a snow shovel either.
I have just tested my newest project, the 6KW home built generator set. I have some 13 watt flourescent fixtures to use for emergency lighting.
If I did not live in an area with much better than average electrical service, I would be more inclined to get busy on this. We have had only one outage in the last three years, it was only for an hour or so.
I see on the television news accounts of massive outages in other areas, they are a long ways from San Diego. If I lived in one of those places, my priorities would certainly be different.
I have just tested my newest project, the 6KW home built generator set. I have some 13 watt flourescent fixtures to use for emergency lighting.
If I did not live in an area with much better than average electrical service, I would be more inclined to get busy on this. We have had only one outage in the last three years, it was only for an hour or so.
I see on the television news accounts of massive outages in other areas, they are a long ways from San Diego. If I lived in one of those places, my priorities would certainly be different.
mmhouse
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Similar to Ray I also have some plug-in emergency lights. I recently replaced my old, big ones with a pair of small LED emergency lights from Costco. They will run on the batteries for many hours and have a low and high setting....very nice and only take up one outlet.
I also have a couple of nice LED lanterns from REI that will burn for days using six 'D' cell batteries.
On top of that, I have generator backup for the key circuits in my house in the event of an extended outage. I just roll my generator out of the garage and fire it up, plug it into the house, throw a couple of breakers and I have power to lights, the fridge and microwave, TV, etc.