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Description : Roughing in of the electrical. I figured a subpanel would make wiring all the outlets much easier.
Date : Sun Dec 1 23:41:41 2002
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Date : Mon Dec 2 05:25:07 2002
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Description : That's a lot of outlets. The grey box is for a 30A 240V socket was originally slated for a sparccenter 2000.
Date : Mon Dec 2 05:25:51 2002
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Description : A clearer view of the wall behind the racks. The workbench can be seen on the right edge of the photo.
Date : Mon Dec 2 05:26:32 2002
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Description : Ethernet wiring appears. In retrospect I should've run full conduit for all the ethernet, but it would've been a hell of a lot more effort, and I honestly don't see myself exceeding 100mbit within the next five years.
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:15:40 2002
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Description : The black frame in the middle of the photo is where the patch panel will be placed. I need to run more wire to other parts of the house after the wall was closed, so put in a length of conduit from the patch panel location to the open floor of the basement.
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:16:37 2002
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Description : Another view of the back wall. Both ethernet and electrics have been pulled, and we're ready for drywall.
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:16:49 2002
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Description : The wall around the subpanel. Note the studwork involved around the corner.
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:18:45 2002
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Description : The new subpanel. Notice how all incoming wires are labeled and how much room there is to work inside the panel. A second grounding strip was also installed to facilitate ease in wiring hookups.

Extra capacity in this panel will eventually be used to provide finer circuit granularity within the house.

Date : Mon Dec 30 04:24:03 2002
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Description : Another subpanel shot
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:24:55 2002
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Description : The subpanel wall and desk-accessible circuits.
Date : Mon Dec 30 04:25:42 2002
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Description : Drywall is up, and the new window is in. No more drafts in this corner of the basement.

The electrical box holes were made with a rotozip tool, and while easy to operate, it takes a bit of experience to get a good feel for where the edges of boxes are. Hence the overshoot on a number of boxes.

Date : Wed Jan 15 06:00:23 2003
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Description : The rack wall, ready for taping.
Date : Wed Jan 15 06:00:51 2003
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Description : Rack wall, ready for taping
Date : Wed Jan 15 06:01:02 2003
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Description : View from the workbench area. Don't let the electrics and ethernet attack you!

Note that while the subpanel is active, all the breakers are disabled except for one running to the bedroom above this corner of the basement. No exposed wiring is live.

Date : Wed Jan 15 06:01:32 2003
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Description : A view further back from where the workbench will eventually live. Two surface power strips will be mounted above the workbench after the wall is taped and painted.
Date : Wed Jan 15 06:02:17 2003
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Description : The new workbench area under the stairs. Note the shielded cable running to the power strips. Both strips and the outlet near the floor are GFCI protected and on their own circuit breaker.
Date : Fri Feb 7 05:44:42 2003
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Description : Patch panel is installed, and outlets for the racks are in place.
Date : Fri Feb 7 05:45:16 2003
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Description : The bottom row of connectors is as follows: 120V 30A, 240V 30A, 120V 30A, and 120V 20A.
Date : Fri Feb 7 05:45:39 2003
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Description : Alternate view of the datacentre corner.
Date : Fri Feb 7 05:47:09 2003
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Description : Messy work.
Date : Fri Feb 7 05:49:11 2003
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Date : Fri Feb 7 05:50:30 2003
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