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A lesson learned on yesterday's job !
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<blockquote data-quote="Lurch" data-source="post: 446535" data-attributes="member: 6967"><p>I had a similar issue with an apprentice, was working in a leisure centre and was looking to knock the emergency lights off in the reception/lobby area so told the apprentice to tell me when the power to them was off. I stood in a broom cupboard flipping breakers, some labelled as lighting/emergency lights and similar. Ran out of labelled breakers so tried all the 6's/10's then ended up with not a single one operating the circuit I wanted to work on, only one MCB left at this point, but it was labelled something like 'high bays'. Flipped that one and still nothing apparently so I turned it back on, and then I had run out of MCB's to try so as I left the cupboard everyone appeared to be leaving the swimming pool. It goes quite dark in there when the high bays are switched off, and it takes a while to warm them back up again so everyone had to evacuate and wait in the changing rooms for 15 minutes until it was safe to return!</p><p></p><p>When I went back to work out what was going on the (lazy) apprentice was looking at the lamp in the maintained emergency and completely ignored the bright green LED. Turns out the first circuit I tried was the correct one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>lettuced (not a swear word) is filtered but twat isn't? How odd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lurch, post: 446535, member: 6967"] I had a similar issue with an apprentice, was working in a leisure centre and was looking to knock the emergency lights off in the reception/lobby area so told the apprentice to tell me when the power to them was off. I stood in a broom cupboard flipping breakers, some labelled as lighting/emergency lights and similar. Ran out of labelled breakers so tried all the 6's/10's then ended up with not a single one operating the circuit I wanted to work on, only one MCB left at this point, but it was labelled something like 'high bays'. Flipped that one and still nothing apparently so I turned it back on, and then I had run out of MCB's to try so as I left the cupboard everyone appeared to be leaving the swimming pool. It goes quite dark in there when the high bays are switched off, and it takes a while to warm them back up again so everyone had to evacuate and wait in the changing rooms for 15 minutes until it was safe to return! When I went back to work out what was going on the (lazy) apprentice was looking at the lamp in the maintained emergency and completely ignored the bright green LED. Turns out the first circuit I tried was the correct one. lettuced (not a swear word) is filtered but twat isn't? How odd. [/QUOTE]
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