Hadn't a chance yet to search Cyburbia... but from a thread I spotted elsewhere....
> I helped my brother-in-law install a kiln for my sister.
> If you don't know, a kiln is used for firing ceramics; gets
>
> up to 2500 degrees or so for about 12 hours (cost about $14
> of electricity each run, I believe). We ran a new 60 Amp
>
> circuit I believe, and we used a lot heavier wiring than
> 14 gauge. I don't remembed exactly what gauge it was, but
>
> we had a hard time getting it through 3/4 or 1 inch conduit,
>
> but that was for a bundle of 4 wires.
No wonder my art teacher never turned on the school's kiln all through the 1980s, when things were in recession here in Ireland.... now the kids have 'everything' though... too much even. I noticed in that school building too, how all of the things which were 'heavy on power' were organised along a single backbone of the entire school.... this includes the wood working, metal working and all the crafts workshops, the science laboratories and the home economics, as it was called.... i.e. sewing and cooking.... I am trying to think what else was there... yeah, the computer labortory and the room with all the dark out, raked seating, large projection capabilities... yeah when I do think about it now, this was extremely practical indeed.
The school also got a choice, of having either an indoor heating swimming pool or a gym, so they chose a gym... this school was built back in the early 70s, for the kids of the two nearby Electricty supply stations to go to... so power was possibly at a discount too!
Yeah, every would be architectural conessior.... down my way hates it as a building,.... as a design... this school that is. But I am thinking to myself, before technology ever got off the ground in Ireland,.... that this schools design was forward thinking at least in this sense... and even quite ambitious.
The poster went on to make this interesting comment also:
Actually the wiring in the house I live in is excelent compared
to the wiring in the house I grew up in. It was built in the
late 1800s, so it originally didn't have electricity or a bathroom
for that matter. The wiring was added later (but not much later;
some of it was on bare wires strung between ceramic insulators)
just to run lights. We were running a whole set of electrical
appliances (quick recovery electric water heater, freezer,
refrigerator, well, electric stove, microwave, washer/dryer,
etc). Of course, new wiring had been added for most of that, but
we where using way to much power for the little fuse box that
was installed. We blew fuses (no breakers) on a regular basis,
since you had to be carefull what was turned on at the same time.
With how much power a modern american household uses, the little
rubber things on the fuse cartriges actually melted. That house
was overdue for demolition.
Some interesting posts... http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115075313
Sort of part of a running discussion over there about power consumption, the environment and such.... which sort of 'creeps into' our chatting, every so often... totally OT, but interesting nonetheless... to me at least.
As I do a lot of highly serviced buildings, site investigations, solutions and planning these days.
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115074668
> I helped my brother-in-law install a kiln for my sister.
> If you don't know, a kiln is used for firing ceramics; gets
>
> up to 2500 degrees or so for about 12 hours (cost about $14
> of electricity each run, I believe). We ran a new 60 Amp
>
> circuit I believe, and we used a lot heavier wiring than
> 14 gauge. I don't remembed exactly what gauge it was, but
>
> we had a hard time getting it through 3/4 or 1 inch conduit,
>
> but that was for a bundle of 4 wires.
No wonder my art teacher never turned on the school's kiln all through the 1980s, when things were in recession here in Ireland.... now the kids have 'everything' though... too much even. I noticed in that school building too, how all of the things which were 'heavy on power' were organised along a single backbone of the entire school.... this includes the wood working, metal working and all the crafts workshops, the science laboratories and the home economics, as it was called.... i.e. sewing and cooking.... I am trying to think what else was there... yeah, the computer labortory and the room with all the dark out, raked seating, large projection capabilities... yeah when I do think about it now, this was extremely practical indeed.
The school also got a choice, of having either an indoor heating swimming pool or a gym, so they chose a gym... this school was built back in the early 70s, for the kids of the two nearby Electricty supply stations to go to... so power was possibly at a discount too!
The poster went on to make this interesting comment also:
Actually the wiring in the house I live in is excelent compared
to the wiring in the house I grew up in. It was built in the
late 1800s, so it originally didn't have electricity or a bathroom
for that matter. The wiring was added later (but not much later;
some of it was on bare wires strung between ceramic insulators)
just to run lights. We were running a whole set of electrical
appliances (quick recovery electric water heater, freezer,
refrigerator, well, electric stove, microwave, washer/dryer,
etc). Of course, new wiring had been added for most of that, but
we where using way to much power for the little fuse box that
was installed. We blew fuses (no breakers) on a regular basis,
since you had to be carefull what was turned on at the same time.
With how much power a modern american household uses, the little
rubber things on the fuse cartriges actually melted. That house
was overdue for demolition.
Some interesting posts... http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115075313
Sort of part of a running discussion over there about power consumption, the environment and such.... which sort of 'creeps into' our chatting, every so often... totally OT, but interesting nonetheless... to me at least.
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=115074668