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Lost an entire afternoon on a commercial site because someone labeled the zone wires wrong
Spent 4 hours tracing a supposed open on zone 3 only to find it was actually zone 7 and the panel was programmed backwards, has anyone else had a rookie installer mess up the labels that bad?
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piper_flores696d agoMost Upvoted
Four hours? Man, I’d have probably just rewired the whole thing in 20 minutes and moved on, is it really worth all that frustration?
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holly_price6d ago
Oh man, I used to be one of those people who thought "just rewire it quick" was the answer too. But then I had a job where the whole panel was a mess like that and I spent an hour rerunning wires only to realize the actual problem was a bad relay that I could have found in 10 minutes if I'd just traced it properly. Now I force myself to stop and verify labels before I touch anything, even if it feels like a waste of time. It's saved me more headache than I can count. So yeah, I get it now, sometimes you gotta eat the frustration to avoid making a bigger mess.
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