Bob,
Had many years in Commercial and High Rise work. It would take pages to tell you the problems with office cube wiring. It's the office furniture design of the older cubes that presented the problems. The heavy use of electronic equipment in these cubes, cause problems in the entire system. I worked for a number of years with power engineers, and the office furniture design engineers to resolve building system problems. Today when electrical distribution
for office use is designed, most but not all of the problems have been resolved. While talking about the contact hazards involved in multiwire circuits, system failure and fire is another hazard in the older cubes and building distribution equipment. What we found going on in the floor transformers, and distribution panel neutrals was something I had never considered, circulating currents, causing temp rise in the system. again it all depends on the design of the system. Good design up front less problems in the end.
[This message has been edited by LK (edited 09-20-2003).]
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