Circuit labelling standards.
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EAST - WEST, etc
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Yes East West if you're a sailor, or front back, left right, which rooms they cover, or you can even call them sockets a and sockets b if you want (and prov a diagram or label each socket)
There's no standard it just has to be clear.
There's no standard it just has to be clear.
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There are no CU labeling standards (except for - make it too small to read when balancing on a chair!).
I would use something like:
Left- Grd &1st
Right- Grd & 1st
Or
Sockets - Left side of Grd &1st
Sockets - Right side of Grd & 1st
When I did this I used Word to write labels so I could make them a bit more detailed, that I then stuck onto the CU.
Sfk
There are no CU labeling standards (except for - make it too small to read when balancing on a chair!).
I would use something like:
Left- Grd &1st
Right- Grd & 1st
Or
Sockets - Left side of Grd &1st
Sockets - Right side of Grd & 1st
When I did this I used Word to write labels so I could make them a bit more detailed, that I then stuck onto the CU.
Sfk
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Plenty of ambiguous systems to choose from.
Nautical: Port, Starboard, Fore, Aft
Automotive: Nearside, Offside, Front, Rear
Medical: Left, Right, Anterior, Posterior
Railway: Upside, Downside, Up, Down
North, South, East, West makes most sense to me because left and right depend on which way you are facing. Do you look out of the front door with left on your left and right on your right like it's a ship? Or do you stand on the street and look at the house like it's a painting? Or is it as you stand and look at the labels wherever they are placed? A house doesn't move and the compass points are always the same.
Nautical: Port, Starboard, Fore, Aft
Automotive: Nearside, Offside, Front, Rear
Medical: Left, Right, Anterior, Posterior
Railway: Upside, Downside, Up, Down
North, South, East, West makes most sense to me because left and right depend on which way you are facing. Do you look out of the front door with left on your left and right on your right like it's a ship? Or do you stand on the street and look at the house like it's a painting? Or is it as you stand and look at the labels wherever they are placed? A house doesn't move and the compass points are always the same.
Look at The Sun - not directly of course.
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A bit hard to do when fault finding at night
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Of course! If you looked at it directly, you'd get distracted by page three...
And then you might boob when doing the work.
You can fit quite a lot of detail on printed labels, further information can be added on a separate label.
Easy to put a compass app on your phone.
Wired the sockets in our house so some of the bedrooms are on different circuits (seemed logical at the time for some reason).
So at the CU, I labeled circuits with the children's names, relating to the appropriate child's bedroom.
All was fine until one day they decided to all swap rooms!
So at the CU, I labeled circuits with the children's names, relating to the appropriate child's bedroom.
All was fine until one day they decided to all swap rooms!
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Stairs side, and non stairs side, or kitchen side or any other fixed item in the house, music room side.
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