From: "CBHvac" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house alt.hvac
Subject: Re: In a bad way...
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:19:12 -0700

sniff..sniff..I smell trollin..


"WantTito"  wrote in message
news:cu6Za.49477$hc.39901@fe3.columbus.rr.com...
> I just had a new heat pump and airhandler put in for roughly $3000
> yesterday.  At the end of the day the owner/installer called to tell me
that
> the system went in fine but when working at the circuit breaker box the
220
> and 110 were mislabeled and this caused him to send 220 to the outlet
> feeding my electronic air cleaner and water softener.  Both units are now
> toasted.

Umm.....no...I dont buy it..
Meaning..I think your stuff was fried before hand, and you think posting
this on the net somehow puts the blame on him..
HOWEVER....
IF he really did do this...I would want the heat pump out of my house, since
any monkey can tell the difference, and its all 220VAC in the box anyway...

>
> At this point I played dumb, like, what do we do now?  He took the
controls
> from the air cleaner to his tech center to get fixed - or get an extimate.
> And I was to call Sears to schedule a service call for the water softener.
> He wants to go half and half on the damage because it was my mislabled
> panel.
>
> What should I do here?
>
>

What I would do, if this really happened, if figure out how in hell some
dumbass took a circuit that was wired up with one phase of the 220VAC and a
neutral, and took that said neutral loose, and phased it in with the other
220VAC phase. See...the problem I have with this story, is simple...he would
have HAD to have removed the single pole breakers for those parts (water
softner and cleaner) replaced them with a double pole breaker, removed the
neutral from the bar, wired the neutral into the other half of the breaker,
and put power to the circuit...and that takes some doing..in the sense of
stupidity.

So...no...I dont buy the story.