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The_Tim

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I host the podcast "Dispatches from the Multiverse" & comment on podcasts, data, games, LEGO, real estate, economics, EVs, drones, & all things awesome. Also I'm the guy who posted that video of a raccoon trying to catch snowflakes.

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TechConnectify, to random
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In my last video, I probably should have included an image of what "in conduit" means. So here's the outlet in my kitchen island, and what's inside the cabinet.

All electrical work around Chicago is done like this even in residential construction. Armored cabling is sometimes allowed and is much easier for a DIYer. I've worked with it before, though, and it still sucks compared to Romex!

A view from inside the cabinet where a metal pipe is coming up through the floor and bending to meet a metal electrical box. Wires run within the pipe to the box and then the receptacle

The_Tim,
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@TechConnectify But… the mud ring can be installed in a vertical orientation just as easily as horizontal on a square double-wide box, can't it? e.g. This outlet in a commercial space here in Washington State.

In fact I think here the conduit is required for commercial spaces, but I've rarely seen the horizontal orientation. Color me still confused.

The_Tim,
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@TechConnectify Oh I'm not criticizing the horizontal orientation at all! Just trying to understand how it is related to the conduit thing. They seem to be two completely separate quirks, unrelated except for the fact that they are both common in Chicago…

The_Tim,
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@atocci @TechConnectify @gnb The plastic boxes are designed to be nailed to the vertical studs, and have screw posts for the outlets aligned in parallel with the stud.

photo of two blue plastic electrical outlet boxes nailed to a stud in an open wall, a double-wide box faces the camera

malwaretech, to random
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The LinkedIn meta of creating fake Tweets from yourself, photoshopping in a verified badge, then quoting yourself by posting screenshots makes me want to kms.

I genuinely did not think it was possible to be more cringe than chronically online Twitter users until I learned about LinkeInfluencers.

The_Tim,
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@malwaretech I don't really Reddit much anymore after they went mask-off full anti-user, but there's a dedicated subreddit just for this that was amusing at times: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/

The_Tim, to random
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Personally I'm tired of billionaires.

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