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FreeKnight said:
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This mess of wires in my spare upstairs bathroom.

Yesterday I decided to fix the last remaining electrical issue in my house. The upstairs spare bathroom. When I moved in I noticed that the fan would never turn off. At first I thought it was a bad switch, so I swapped the switch. No luck, still never turned off. At the time I unplugged the fan at the fan connector as I didn't have time to deep dive into the issue. Decided it was time to resolve it.

Tried another switch. Nope. Light switch always worked fine. Tested each wire coming out of the box. All seem correct. Got my tester and checked the switch with the breaker off. No power. Okay that's correct
Turned the breaker back on and it's hot going into the switch and... hot leaving the switch regardless if the switch is on or not. Breaker again, Disconnect the switch. Breaker back on.

Hot going in and.... hot leaving with both open to air... what the hell?!?! Back down to the basement to flick the breaker off. It's 3 floors and I've now done about 30 sets of stairs.

Take a closer look and what they did was run a jumper from the marette coiling the hots going into the light switch to the wire leaving the fan switch (which was then connected in another marette to another hot). Basically they tried to so hot was going into both terminals of the switch and connecting to the fanwire via another hot on the way out.

Removed the jumper, figured out which one was going to the fan and then wired it correctly, everything is working fine. The wires were definitely a little short, but had just enough length. Meanwhile adding about another 15 sets of stairs while I go up and down.

I don't know if they tried to make it that the fan was tied to the light, though why you'd leave the switch still in place... or if they realized they cut them too short and decided to try and lengthen the connection to the switch but used the wrong marette, either way, sheesh what a headache for something that should have been so easy to do right the first time.
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Our Calgary property has a seperate bypass light switch, which is king of it's turned on. Basically it's to exhaust the heat in the summer time or force airflow if wanted. The switch I'm speaking about was near the furnace t-stat. It took me a couple years to figure out wtf was going on with the "mystery switch"

@JD All places in Calgary in the past 20+ years have an open pipe to the furnace room that is within 2 feet of the floor (in the same air space) to provide fresh back up combustion air and prevent negative pressure within the house when people turn the fart fans on.

By code, home owners can install a ln interlocked mechanical damper so it clears when the furnace is or airconditioning is NOT in use. Fresh air is required in Alberta and must be installed if the furnace is replaced in older homes.
 
Well the new PSU hasn't solved the unexpected shutdowns when playing modern games.

Played about 30 mins of Clair Obscur today (streaming over moonlight), no lag, no slowdowns, then just shutdown out of nowhere. Happened with Jedi Survivor and Avowed too.

BIOS is the recent ASUS update. Memtest 86 ran without issues, Furmark and Prime95 stress tests ran for several hours each with no issues. I guess next I'll try downclocking the ram from it's rated speed of 6000Mhz to 5200Mhz and swapping my psu cables out (using cablemod ones right now). If that doesn't do it, I've got to assume it's a problem with the 7800X3D or the Asus X670E-F...
 
Looking at my Pay stub I noticed under taxes something I dont remember ever seeing before I see the typical Canada employment insurance EE, and the Canada Pension play EE but wth is Canada FWT I searched and can't find anything I am guessing its the Income tax?
 
Shadowmeph said:
Looking at my Pay stub I noticed under taxes something I dont remember ever seeing before I see the typical Canada employment insurance EE, and the Canada Pension play EE but wth is Canada FWT I searched and can't find anything I am guessing its the Income tax?
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Federal tax withholding (Fed Tax, FT, FIT, or FWT)​

Federal income tax withholding (FITW or FWT) is the amount that you’ve already paid the federal government. When people ask, “What is FIT on my paycheck?” this is it! When you file your tax return, you’ll get a credit for this amount to apply to any tax you’ll owe the federal government.

 
Door spring on my Breville countertop oven just broke. So it thinks the door is open all the time. Which does affect it. Look on YT and find a vid posted just a month ago. Couple thousand views already. Lots of comments saying it just happened to them as well.

Can't remember how much it cost but I want to say around $600. And it sounds like it's not an if but when will it fail kind of situation. Have to take the entire thing apart to fix. But at least the video is pretty thorough.
 
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lowfat said:
Door spring on my Breville countertop oven just broke. So it thinks the door is open all the time. Which does affect it. Look on YT and find a vid posted just a month ago. Couple thousand views already. Lots of comments saying it just happened to them as well.

Can't remember how much it cost but I want to say around $600. And it sounds like it's not an if but when will it fail kind of situation. Have to take the entire thing apart to fix. But at least the video is pretty thorough.
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Is there a readily available replacement part at a reasonable price?
 
sswilson said:
Is there a readily available replacement part at a reasonable price?
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It isn't a Breville part. But springs that will work were $17 at Amazon. Substantially thicker than the stock ones. So should last forever.

For a premium brand, I sure do seem to have to fix Breville units a lot. Stand mixer, bread maker, and now this.
 
Sigh...

Get around to fixing my phones.

Install new screen on S22 Ultra. Aftermarket one from Aliexpress as $400 vs $100 for a 3 year old phone makes little sense. Install went well except I forgot to order replacement back glass gasket. Phone works. BUT the screen is pretty shitty. Bezels are substantially larger. And for some reason font just doesn't look right to me.

And then the iPhone 15 Pro max. FML I should have just left the original cracked back and sold as is. Took me a good 2 hours to remove the original back. And then I realized that the phone can detect aftermarket backs, not sure how it affect it yet. As I couldn't get new one installed. I ordered 3 gaskets and screwed up all 3. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong or if the ones I bought were just crap.

I need some sort of phone for work, so I'm using the S22 Ultra. But as I'm using an Otterbox I can just stuff in the case and it works. I've noticed it is substantially more laggy than the iPhone.
 
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