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Confessions of an Electrician...

Lisa Miles

So while we’ve not been able to log into the community (you can do so now if you didn’t already know) I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief Blush by going through some of the discussion topics on the old Wiring Regs forum and came across this one: Walking off site where some of you were sharing stories about your experiences with client's pets while on the job. 


So I thought it would be a bit of fun to ask you to share some of your funny/bizarre or just weird stories (keeping it relatively clean and protecting the privacy of others please!) from any jobs you’ve been on or done.


… And I’ll send some swag to the author of the story that gets voted the ‘Most helpful/liked’ from the community so don't forget to hit that 'Good Answer' link on any that make you chuckle! (Log in required)



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  • Not me but my brother (honestly)...

    Working as part of a hospital radio station team, they found an old piece of equipment and they didn't know if it worked. The circuit board said it was 240V (at least it would have said this if the zero hadn't been worn away, which was evident from the large gap between the 24 and the V.....). As he said later, who on earth puts such a large gap so it says '24     V'.

    Putting 240V on a 24V circuit board resulted in a wrecked piece of equipment, the station off-air and possibly the fire alarms going off (though I can't remember if this last bit was part of the story).
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  • Not me but my brother (honestly)...

    Working as part of a hospital radio station team, they found an old piece of equipment and they didn't know if it worked. The circuit board said it was 240V (at least it would have said this if the zero hadn't been worn away, which was evident from the large gap between the 24 and the V.....). As he said later, who on earth puts such a large gap so it says '24     V'.

    Putting 240V on a 24V circuit board resulted in a wrecked piece of equipment, the station off-air and possibly the fire alarms going off (though I can't remember if this last bit was part of the story).
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