Not everyone is an idiot. I am responsible for the building and grounds.
After a full career in the Navy fully versed in tag-out procedures, I tagged out the breaker and there is zero personnel risk to anyone. I assumed all risk to my inverter which I was willing to lose if the demo went awry. Bob On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:59 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > You're going to dismiss what I have to say, which is your prerogative. I > just want othe people here to know that what you did was not a good idea. > It was actually pretty dangerous. There are other adjectives I could use > for it, but I'm more polite than that. > > > extension cord coming out of my trunk and > > conspicuously run through the front door and plugged into the first > outlet. > > They don't call those "suicide cords" for nothing. > > > I had visited the day before, and moved that outlet's wire at the circuit > > breaker over onto the same circuit as the meeting room's lights. > > Do you own the building? If not, did you have permission from the > building's owner? > > If I owned that place and let your group use it, and found out that you'd > been poking around in the panel, I'd be pretty annoyed. > > More than that, actually. Your group would never use my building again. > You'd also pay for the licensed electrician I'd hire to fix your tinkering. > > > All I had to do on meeting night was flip that breaker off (and tag it > > out) and then backfeed the outlet. > > Better hope that the janitor (or whomever) doesn't see that breaker and > fail > to understand your tag. You'd get a nasty bang and lose your inverter, or > worse. > > Backfeeding receptacles for backup power is a dangerous thing to do. > > Don't do it. > > Just don't. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190121/bcd19ac1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
