Next: The contractor had to obtain an electrical permit from the state to legally do it. Jeeze.....

So the electrician put an ice cube relay (Cutler-Hammer) in the system to allow the receptical feeding the LED projector to switch on when the projector shut down. No problem.

Now the electrical inspector said "fuse the relay coil".....(that circuit is already fused.....) But that's ok - whatever spins the inspector's crank, I guess....

Enter electrical inspector. He did not like the wire. He wanted stranded conductor instead of solid conductor. (what a jerk)

Now he wants documentation on the fuse holder, relay and the relay socket to make sure it is "UL" approved.

Now the inspector wants us to go back to ORC to get documentation to make sure the ORC Console can handle an extra 1/10 of an amp without overloading and tripping the 60 amp breaker. Grrrrrr...

Pardon me, gentlemen, but I think this electrical inspector should buy a life at "K" Mart.

We hire a contractor to do minor work. We can't legally do any minor work such as this now, as we could get a hefty fine if we did and got caught doing it in this state.

Please don't get me wrong.....I am for electrical safety. All our electrical parts come from commercial suppliers such as Johnstone, Grainger, All-Phase Electric, and Platt Electric. We do our best to stay away from the hardware stores. Much of that hardware store stuff is sub-standard.

Four things come to mind.

1. The electrical inspector has to justify his job.
2. The state makes money on permits.
3. Electrical inspectors like to think they are God.
4. If they have a bad day, their philosophy seems that it is necessary to ruin everybody's day.

To top it off, the electrical contractor we hired is a journeyman, licensed and bonded, and has been doing electrical contracting work for years!

Everyone I talked to while I was trying to get practically non-existant documentation in ice cube relays and minor stuff like that agree that some - but not all inspectors - are a bunch of jerks.

Maybe I have a bad attitude, but if one of these jerks expects me to hire an electrical contractor to change a hard-wired Xenon Power Supply complete with a permit to do so can just KMA!

Paul.

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