I performed a bit of electrical work yesterday. Not an extensive project. I replaced (“changed-out” in electrician-speak) a three-way switch at my home’s garage entry door.
Okay, not a huge deal. Especially, considering I have been an
electrician for 44 years now.
What is a big deal,
however, is how I performed in a “hot work” culture for much of my career. I, and most of my coworkers, rarely
de-energized circuits when working on receptacles or switches. We “worked them hot.”
Yesterday, the older and
improved version of me de-energized the circuit.
In the era when I constructed
my home, most switches were not provided with a grounding terminal and the
switches were, therefore, ungrounded.
Such was the case with my original switch.
Today, I would like to announce
I not only de-energized the circuit—I also grounded the switch.
It has only taken 44 years to
get this far. Someday, I might be pretty
good at this electrical stuff.
— Mitchell Hegman
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