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What are functions that are not a part of your job that common wisdom would make people expect are a part of it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm an electrician, a lot of people assume electricians are lighting specialist. We are not.

I have lighting vendors calculate photometrics for commercial jobs and I do what is common sense for residential.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why does my mini fridge keep tripping my GFCI outlet? Is it a bad motor or is it just never good to put a compressor motor on a GFI?

Edit: Actually this comment made a lot of sense and is making me think through some things. Home run comes into the GFCI outlet first then daisy chains over to where the mini fridge is.