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Altruistic-Tower-784 t1_j57h9d4 wrote

Reply to comment by ToxicAdamm in The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off by AStartIsBorn

Sure contractors cut corners, but they can’t exclude circuit breakers because they are required by the National Electrical Code (NFPA 70). Just turn off the breakers that power the lighting ballasts. So dumb…

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JanitorKarl t1_j57tag8 wrote

My first thought as well. Where are the circuit breakers? Turn the breakers off.

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Zorro_Returns t1_j589ef7 wrote

Have you ever tried controlling your home's electric devices from a breaker panel? Now imagine some 7,000 individual lights. 1) you don't have as much specific control, 2) it's a pain in the ass to walk over to a panel 3) how do you turn off "this" light, without turning off all the others on the circuit?

Anyway, the article states that they are doing that with some of the breakers, and removing individual lighting elements in some other fixtures.

Just because the article is dumb, read it anyway. People aren't as dumb as you wish they were :)

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redcapmilk t1_j59mslu wrote

Remember when they had to turn the lights back on in Jurassic Park? People get hurt, People die.

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Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life t1_j582bok wrote

I worked in a box store and that is how we turned off all of the lights at night. It’s just so much faster than walking around turning them all off individually.

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Zorro_Returns t1_j589lqt wrote

Evidently, you can turn off a whole town with a few bullets.

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nochinzilch t1_j586lwa wrote

They surely have breakers. But those are probably in a locked electrical room. And the maintenance people (if there are any) can't be bothered to turn them on and off every day.

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freebirth t1_j58rd6z wrote

if they dont have manitenance people. that school woudlnt run for more then a week.

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Zorro_Returns t1_j588zoy wrote

That's what they've been doing according to the article. Or physically removing bulbs. Yeah, it is dumb, but it's that's not going to be a feasible workaround. Having to walk down the hall and into a locked panel room to turn something on and off would get old fast. And you wouldn't be able to address specific uses, like you would with traditional switches.

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