8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
12:13 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
My own house has its share of "stream of
consciousness" wiring, but
it has a utilities plenum running the length of the building in the
basement where all of the plumbing, heavy-gauge wiring and large
heating ducts are run. So I'm better off than most.
Heh, no such luck here. The house has been semi-rewired in recent past and
it's a total rats' nest down in the basement. As the place was once a working
farm, the service panels look more like something befitting a factory -
breakers and wires aplenty! It's on the list to trace it all out sometime so
that when things do go wrong fault-finding will be a lot easier.
The various out-buildings are a real mix of above-ground and below-ground
power feeds, original 1940's wiring and fuseboxes, more modern cabling, and
"home-made" stuff using any old fixtures and power cord. There's even a pair
of enormous 150W light bulbs in the garage that look like they might have been
hanging on since the '50s...
For the building where the vintage computers will live, I'm thinking I'll put
a new cable run out to there from the house, fit a new breaker unit, and give
it both 120V and 240V. Cat-5 for network, and RS-232 just for the heck of it -
I'm sure I'll find a use for it.
Oh, I found an ancient fusebox behind a panel in one of the bathrooms (really)
a few weeks ago - it's got power, but no amount of investigation has yet
revealed what it's there for :-)
cheers
Jules