Just picking up on one of Steptoe's posts about phase colours in Yellow White Blue and wondered how many oddities have been encountered at different places.
I can start with a hospital where all steel couplers on boxes & boards had to be flange couplers , consisting of steel coupler with flange ...thick lead washer....serrated steel washer & full length heavy gauge brass bush and saddles were the " hospital" saddles which stand off a full 1/2 inch . Never used those couplers before or since.
Reason for the latter is so that dirt & gunge doesn't collect behind the conduit.
Another was a local authority , did some school work for them , all pyro ,for no particular reason had to be the heavy grade . So where we would have used say, 2L1.5 there it was 2H1.5 for general use.
Also had a forman years ago who connected phases left to right Blu....Yell....Red . And the old Bill type fuseboards top to bottom Blu...Yell...Red.
One thing that made sense was at a local university, all general purpose lighting was done with 5ft fluorescent fittings, even a store cupboard would have a 5ft in it if possible , if not those early Thorn 16w X 2D fittings . Do not fit anything else !!!
The reason was for maintenance not having to stock anything other than a 5ft tube and 16w x 2Ds ....for general purposes anyway . Makes sense on a large campus.
I can start with a hospital where all steel couplers on boxes & boards had to be flange couplers , consisting of steel coupler with flange ...thick lead washer....serrated steel washer & full length heavy gauge brass bush and saddles were the " hospital" saddles which stand off a full 1/2 inch . Never used those couplers before or since.
Reason for the latter is so that dirt & gunge doesn't collect behind the conduit.
Another was a local authority , did some school work for them , all pyro ,for no particular reason had to be the heavy grade . So where we would have used say, 2L1.5 there it was 2H1.5 for general use.
Also had a forman years ago who connected phases left to right Blu....Yell....Red . And the old Bill type fuseboards top to bottom Blu...Yell...Red.
One thing that made sense was at a local university, all general purpose lighting was done with 5ft fluorescent fittings, even a store cupboard would have a 5ft in it if possible , if not those early Thorn 16w X 2D fittings . Do not fit anything else !!!
The reason was for maintenance not having to stock anything other than a 5ft tube and 16w x 2Ds ....for general purposes anyway . Makes sense on a large campus.
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