OrneryPest
lower life form
The applicable building code here in Solomons (and perhaps all of Maryland, for all I know) requires that if you have a non-dwelling structure, such as a garage, wired for electricity, any person-entry door that's not big enough for vehicles has gotta have an outside light beside the door, controlled by a switch inside the building. I haven't the slightest idea why.
My old garage (now ripped down to make way for the new one) had such a light, put in when I had the place wired about 25 years ago. The light was never turned on, except maybe once every few years to see if it still worked.
It's a non-dwelling structure. When you're approaching the door from the outside, the light is off, and you can't reach the switch until you're into the building, at which point you don't need the outside light so you're not gonna bother to turn it on.
When you leave the building, you're gonna make sure all lights are turned off as you leave. So the outside light will never been used.
So now that my new garage is being built, I've saved the old outside light so the electrician can re-use it. Hey, it's brand new! Never been used! And never will be used!
I wonder which state legislators had their heads stuck up places I don't wanna know about when they enacted that law.
Anyhow, I've asked the builder of my new garage to put in a motion-detector light on the front of the building, where it will actually be useful when I need it, even though the building code has no such requirement.
My old garage (now ripped down to make way for the new one) had such a light, put in when I had the place wired about 25 years ago. The light was never turned on, except maybe once every few years to see if it still worked.
It's a non-dwelling structure. When you're approaching the door from the outside, the light is off, and you can't reach the switch until you're into the building, at which point you don't need the outside light so you're not gonna bother to turn it on.
When you leave the building, you're gonna make sure all lights are turned off as you leave. So the outside light will never been used.
So now that my new garage is being built, I've saved the old outside light so the electrician can re-use it. Hey, it's brand new! Never been used! And never will be used!
I wonder which state legislators had their heads stuck up places I don't wanna know about when they enacted that law.
Anyhow, I've asked the builder of my new garage to put in a motion-detector light on the front of the building, where it will actually be useful when I need it, even though the building code has no such requirement.
Article 210-20(a) Where a branch circuit supplies continuous loads or any combination of continous & non-continous loads, the rating of the overcurrent device shall not be less than the non-continous load plus 125% of the continous load.