Does anyone else turn a 30 minute job into 2 hours? I rerouted a light from the edge of the appliance room to the middle. I did have to install a piece of lumber to hold the box and replaced the old ceramic fixture to a new one, but that shouldn't be complicated. First I wired it backwards, but realized that before going further.My excuse was that it was dark and I thought I had placed the black wire at the copper screw, but once I got the flashlight close, it was the silver screw.
Good thing I got 2 new fixtures Thursday as I managed to break the first one right as I should have been ready to flip the breaker back on. Ah well, just proud I didn't electrocute myself.
This picture is from before the light was moved, and you saw it previously when I was happy to have replaced the 60w light bulb with the GE ultra bright LED 3-arm light.
The light in its new location
Each arm of the light is in a different position. The one closest is pointing straight down so it doesn't blind me as I am entering the room. The one on the left is at about a 45 and the back one is at a 90* angle so the light bounces of the back wall. It is still set at the lowest light setting.
Now I can see into the P61a when I clean it instead of trying to hold flashlights. I'm sure I will still use a flashlight to an extent, but not for the entire 30 minutes it takes to clean the stove.
If I hadn't broken one of the fixtures, my plan was to replace the light above the drier. The string pulled out of it a long time ago and I've been using a battery operated light there. But, the universe had other plans since the roads were too slick for me to justify going out to get a replacement. Hours upon hours of sleet and grauple just makes a mess. I can hardly wait to try to remoev it all from the Explorer.
Cleaning up the Explorer should be lots of fun!
I look at your wiring re-routing a bit differently. For me it would have been a 6-year, 3-month, 12-day, 2-hour job - getting around to it, you know? In The last 9 days would be there because I dropped both fixtures on my way out of the store. (Actually, I could probably dig around in our workshop and find at least one or two of those fixtures.)
Happy pellet stove cleaning. You deserve the break!
Posted by: Cop Car | February 05, 2022 at 09:45 AM
P.S. Thanks for showing the guts of the stove. I know what the insides of our 1940s coal heating stoves and wood cooking stoves (that were by no means new at the time) looked like, but it's interesting to see the inside of your modern pellet stove these many years later.
Posted by: Cop Car | February 05, 2022 at 09:51 AM
The inside of the pellet stove looks different from coal or wood burning stoves regardless of what year they were made. Completely different beasts :)
Posted by: bogie | February 12, 2022 at 05:31 AM
I noticed!
Posted by: Cop Car | February 12, 2022 at 09:32 AM