How to safely turn off the apartment?
Why disconnect?
As we have said, disconnecting electricity is necessary in two cases:
- If you decide replace wiring in the apartment or carry out repair work, for example, when you need to disassemble a light switch.
- On vacation, if you need to leave the apartment unattended. It is better to be safe and turn off the lights before arrival.
And in the first and second case, you need to open the floor guard at the entrance and find the machine that serves your apartment and which you need to turn off accordingly. How to do it right, read on!
Important! So that at the time of departure it would not be necessary to completely turn off the refrigerator, heating boiler or alarm, we recommend making so-called non-disconnect lines in the shield. We talked about this in more detail in the article: https://our.electricianexp.com/en/dlya-chego-nuzhny-neotklyuchaemye-linii-v-shhite.html.
How to find the right machine?
Some unfortunate electricians on the forums recommend that you act on the logic and turn off the circuit breaker that corresponds to the location of the apartment on the floor. Such a shutdown method is extremely unsafe, because there is a possibility of an illogical arrangement of protective automation. As a result, you turn off the light from the neighbors, and yourself, if at this moment you decide to replace the outlet, you may suffer from electric shock.
If you don’t know which machine is in your dashboard, it’s best to warn your neighbors that they may lose electricity for a few minutes and at the same time find your circuit breaker by means of an exception. All you need is an indicator screwdriver, with which you will check for voltage in the outlet. About, how to use an indicator screwdriver, we told in the corresponding article!
After you find your own circuit breaker, we recommend that you sign it so that you do not encounter this problem in the future! It’s enough just to write the apartment number with a marker above the device and the subsequent blackouts will be more understandable!
Safe power off
Well, briefly consider how to turn off the light in Khrushchev (the old-style apartment). The fact is that not all panel houses are equipped with modern automatic machines. In some, ceramic plugs of two samples are still used: with a button and without, which are also not difficult to turn off.
If you need to de-energize the apartment, and on the dashboard next to the counter there are ceramic plugs without buttons, as in the photo below, you just need to unscrew them (they can stand separately for zero and for the phase).
Turning off the electricity on the apartment panel with automatic plugs is even easier - just click on the small button, which is clearly visible in the photo below, and the electricity disappears.
Well, if you have an ordinary switchboard circuit breaker, then in order to independently turn off the light in Khrushchev, it is enough to put it in the “Off” position, which is clearly not difficult even for an inexperienced electrician.
A very important point - after you turn off the lights in the apartment, you need check voltage in outlets using an indicator screwdriver. If the indicator does not light up, it means that you did everything correctly and you can go on vacation with peace of mind or go on to electrical work.
In the end, I would like to note that sometimes in the apartment panel several machines can serve the wiring: 2 are responsible for the light in the rooms, 2 for groups of outlets, etc. In this case, you need to either turn off all the switches, or find the opening circuit breaker and turn it off. For a safe shutdown, we recommend that you see your own in advance wiring diagram in the apartment, which will indicate the number and rating of all switches. Here we draw your attention to the fact that if you need to partially de-energize the apartment and you understand which machine is responsible for what, it is enough to disconnect the network with one switch.
After repairing the wiring (or arriving from vacation), turning off the light in the apartment is also simple - just screw the plugs back or put the machine in the “On” position. That's the whole technology of safe power outages. We hope you fully understood how to turn off the light in the apartment through the shield without intermediaries!
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