A friendly reminder - never ever assume anything!
I was stripping out a large number of spotlights (20 or so), so I found the breaker and isolated, pulled down the first light and checked for dead. Right enough, it was safe.
So I'm working my way along pulling each spotlight down, pulling the cable from the previous light, snipping the cable from the junction box to the next light, and throwing the lot in a box. On to the next one, climb down, wheel the scaff tower along, back up, pull the next one out, snip, etc.
Until I got to one where I pulled the light down, snipped the cable, and heard a pop. Right enough, about a dozen of them were fed from a different circuit entirely, and every one of the lamps had blown!
That'll teach me not to trust anything, even when I'm 99% certain it's dead. Thankfully the only damage was a hole in my good snips
I was stripping out a large number of spotlights (20 or so), so I found the breaker and isolated, pulled down the first light and checked for dead. Right enough, it was safe.
So I'm working my way along pulling each spotlight down, pulling the cable from the previous light, snipping the cable from the junction box to the next light, and throwing the lot in a box. On to the next one, climb down, wheel the scaff tower along, back up, pull the next one out, snip, etc.
Until I got to one where I pulled the light down, snipped the cable, and heard a pop. Right enough, about a dozen of them were fed from a different circuit entirely, and every one of the lamps had blown!
That'll teach me not to trust anything, even when I'm 99% certain it's dead. Thankfully the only damage was a hole in my good snips