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Dunno what dat mean. Can't find anything they took maybe they were just lock smashers.

Heres the good stuff. Hate to show you guys my shitty house but i'm pretty sure you could have extrapolated that from its electrical system condition.
And thats my girlfriends tiny dog. And my hideous green shirt i wear whenever a major life event occurs.
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You holding that tiny dog really brings that picture together.
 
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The best part about that dog is that it has the face of a huge husky but then it's about the size of a cat.
 
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Picasso_sl said:
My water meter is out at the street 30' away but the gas meter is on the side of my house. I have the #4 on the 3/4 inch copper within 5' of entrance. I guess i need to make sure theres a connection to my gas lines too since i read up on bonding etc? I'm considering a new grounding rod too since my old one is like a piece of rebar or some bullshit ofc but it's going into sandstone so maybe that's what made them do that.
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Forgot to answer this. When it comes to gas lines, if your gas lines are all (black) metal and electrically continuous, you do not need to bond it separatelyIFyour gas appliances are connected to an EGC (equipment grounding conductor, the "green" wire). I think (I need to go dig a codebook out) that the EGC needs to be sized to any likely circuit that could potentially energize the gas piping (if only your appliance circuits are likely to energize it then the EGC in those circuits, if connected and sized properly, should suffice). If your gas lines have flexible sections (like CSST) then you may need to bond your gas line similar to how you bonded your water line, as they don't want to rely on sections of flexible gas line to be part of a potential fault path. That is something that I haven't done much of if at all though, a lot of it depends on the local AHJs and building codes and I'm not sure how recent the big push for separately bonding gas lines if they have flex is either (I think we ignored it back when I did residential).
 
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Agonizing the Bait Master_sl said:
So I need to make two boxes with four leds that have switches in both boxes to control them. Three way switch that turns it off, blink or steady the light. What do I need big p and e
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What is the application? Is this a simple residential lighting thing where your lights are LED and you just want two 3-way switch boxes? Or is it something different? And it sounds like the two switches need to be 3 position instead of the standard 2 position (on/off) which would complicate things
 
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Also I might have to pull a Picasso and work on basement drains. The one at the furnace stopped draining apparently and all the condensate slowly made a puddle in the basement that caused some water damage to some stuff being stored down there. I thought about dumping some drain cleaner in it but I doubt it's attached to the sanitary drainage (septic system) and I'm not sure if I want a bunch of caustic shit in there if I have to do a lot of messing around with the drain itself.

I'm a bit perplexed at what would clog that up under the basement when we only have a slow trickle of condensation runoff, unless there is just a slow buildup of crud and corrosion.
 
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