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Electrical Answer Man — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:50:42 +0000

Is this an automatic door opener? With button located on wall?

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Michael — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:00:57 +0000

I wonder if you could help me. Problem regards electric door opener/strike.
The electric strike (door opener) obviously is on the door frame attached to the wall and then there’s the door with its latch plate and ‘tongue’ going in and out.
The problem is this, if the door is opened (hence latch tongue not in contact with electric strike) or if the door is closed but the latch tongue is not out, is still within its compartment/latch (hence latch tongue is yet again not in contact with electric strike) then if one pushes the button to create a connection to open the door we can indeed hear the sound of it doing its job and one can feel the vibration. However, the minute the door is actually closed with the tongue within the door frame electrical latch then nothing happens, no sounds, no more current. How could this be? What is going wrong? and therefore what would need to be checked/fixed.
Both the electric door latch and the ringer upstairs have only 2 wires
thank you

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Electrical Answer Man — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:38:21 +0000

Do you have florescent bulbs or incandescent? If you are using a incandescent dimmer with florescent bulbs it will not work. Look on the dimmer package, it should tell you.

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Electrical Answer Man — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:35:30 +0000

Thanks for letting me know I was right..If you have any more electrical questions I would be glad to help with a Electrical answer..

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Reen Vogel — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:09:24 +0000

I just replaced a single-pole light switch with a single-pole dimmer. Now half the bathroom lights don’t work. Checked and reflipped breaker switches. Twice. Tested/reset CGI’s in bath and near by rooms. Still nothing. Weird. Any ideas? Could I have somehow blown a breaker switch, so the switch won’t even work?

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Chris Coopre — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:16:24 +0000

Haha thanks for the response. The job was in Tampa, Fl. When the second inspector showed up the following day, his first words were, ” I was looking over the notes from yesterday and I have no idea what this guy is talking about.” haha

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Electrical Answer Man — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:59:53 +0000

Where are you located? I will make sure I don’t do a job there..HaHa
Just the opposite for me, I have inspectors and engineers have us make 6ft loops in case the fixtures ever get moved. That inspector don’t know what he is talking about in my opinion.

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Chris Coopre — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:49:31 +0000

I am currently working on a commercial jobsite, remodeling a Beef o Brady’s. We left service loops on each of the 2×4 Lay-in Florescents that were installed. The loops being approximately 3, 12inch coils for a total length of 36 inches. Upon inspection the inspector says that you are NOT allowed to coil MC like that because you will create a transformer and burnt up the MC. Myself nor my foreman have ever heard of such a thing and we were wondering if this is true. Thank you for your time! By the way this is a 120volt circuit.

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Electrical Answer Man — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:54:23 +0000

I don’t think that sharing a neutral should be a reason to use a 3-pole breaker. So the branch circuit going through this 3-pole breaker go straight to the light fixtures? They would have to go thru the contactors in the energy manage system to function first then from there to the fixtures. I don’t think there is a need for this if no other special devices are using this same 3-pole branch circuit..

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Kelly — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:40:19 +0000

There are no contactors for the lights, only special lighting panels with banks of relays controled by the computer. The low voltage switches tied to the system can be programed to turn all or some of the lights on/off. These panels are between the circuit breakers and the lights. I dont think the has anything to do with 3-pole breaker issue because the 120V branch circuits which are not part of the energy management system are all on 3-pole breakers as well. I was wondering if this was done since all the home runs are in four conductor MC cable and the three circuits tied together thus share a nuetral. If you can’t figure out an answer based on what I’ve told you to this point I’ll drop it here and try to get an answer from the local code body since this may be a local code ( there’s nothing in the NEC that I know of).