"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 10:04 PM 2/21/04, Julia Thompson wrote: > >Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > > > Someone called for an electrician? > > > > > > xponent > > > House Calls Maru > > > rob > > > >Yeah, you know anything about installing a heat light in a bathroom? > > Yes. *Don't* put the switch next to the light switch. Particularly if the > bathroom is located in an astronomical observatory and is likely to be used > in the middle of the night by astronomers whose eyes are completely > dark-adapted after hours in the dark, and the switch for the light is a > dimmer switch so they can be turned on very faintly so as not to blind > anyone . . .
Well, what if it's *not* going to be used by astronomers at an astronomical observatory and there's a switch available next to the light switch that nothing else is using right now?
> > Julia > > > >Only Half-Kidding Maru > > Not Kidding At All Maru > > -- Ronn! :)
I have a feeling there's a story behind that....
Gee, whatever would make you think that, just from such a detailed, specific account of why not to do things that way?
:-P
In brief: when they built the new BYU observatory on a mountain some distance from campus, the architects apparently found a regulation that there had to be some sort of heater in the bathrooms, and, owing to lack of space, etc., they installed a heat lamp in the ceiling of each bathroom and put the switch for it next to the dimmer switch for the room lights. Suffice it to say that whether or not the installation is in an astronomical observatory or a private home (1) it is very easy when entering a dark room in the middle of the night to accidentally get the wrong one of two switches which are next to each other, separated by only a couple of inches or so, and (2) a 250-watt "infrared" heat lamp puts out a rather significant amount of radiation in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The usual indication that someone had accidentally selected the wrong switch was a cry of "AAARGH!!" which could be heard throughout the entire building as the victim's dark-adapted eyeballs were stabbed by the unexpected light.
Julia asked: "Well, what if it's *not* going to be used by astronomers at an astronomical observatory [...] ?"
Answer: A person getting out of bed after a couple of hours or more and sleepily walking to the bathroom without turning on any room lights until s/he gets to the bathroom in order not to disturb anyone else who may still be asleep is probably at least as likely to select the wrong switch, and the resulting involuntary cry of "AAARGH!!" is likely to end up disturbing said other sleepers anyway . . .
Julia
who can explain the unused light switch, really...
Does that mean that you also have a story to share?
-- Ronn! :)
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