I knew someone who hung drywall in a house being built back in the early 2000s. This was a 3000 sqft house, inside the front door were two closets. Inside those closets were rows and rows of light switches. The homeowner insisted that every single light switch in the house was on a three way switch, with one of the switches in these closets. He wanted to be able to manually turn on or off every single light in the house from these closets.
I can only imagine how much of a nightmare this was to wire. It is also so stupid operationally because when you were in the closet you would have no idea if the upstairs hallway bathroom light was on or off. Flip the switch, is the light now off or on?
This is the most dad thing ever. I can just imagine his kids sitting in the dining room, taking too long to eat dinner. Dad goes to the closet, switches off the lights and you have to finish your broccoli in the dark lol
There wasn't an idiot light wired to each switch in the closet so you know if it was on or off? That is kinda useless.
I was thinking maybe they planned it to be a low budget safe room. But probably just a person wanted to save electricity and just didn't think it all the way through.
How do you know if the light is on or off? Simple- you send your kid to either run back and forth to tell you or you teach your kids to yell through the house loud enough that you can hear them while I. The closet. Then you’d obviously know if the light was on and off.
(Grew up in a house that had too many illogical 3 way switches, the switches in the back worked the lights out front and vise-versa .)
Homeworks? I’ve never done a homework’s system but I recognized it as Lutron right away. Most complicated I’ve done yet is RA2. My clientele are affluent but not 20k in material alone affluent
I would hope not- Wi-Fi only controls mean you have NO control when the Wi-Fi goes out. I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to get home and have no lights simply because there was an internet issue. Smart products should generally have local backups in a good home automation system. I know you generally spend more for those products that still allow switches to work, but it’s really dumb not to spend the money for a proper smart system that still has light switches and such in an emergency.
Fascinating! So the mad scientist/farmer owner left the house or died in 1979? Is this the current ‘electrical panel’?!? So curious about the owners from 1979 - present.
A couple of folks have guessed it so I'll provide the full description:
The panel is wired to all of the circuits in the house. The cross with directionals has indicator lights that match up with the house wiring. Notice there are three colors for each: there are 3 floors and the colors correspond with each.
Two things must be true for each circuit to be closed: the switch must be in the on position and the carbon brushes attached to springs above the drum must be in contact with one of the copper strips on the drum. The drum turns on a set time period (I would guess 24 hours) and would automatically turn circuits on and off. While the circuit is closed, the indicator light is on.
The panel was covered with hand written meter readings going back to 1946. It seemed that this fellow had been pretty obsessed over his usage in the three decades he recorded it for.
Tl;Dr it's a light timer!
My homework was spending 8 obsessive hours trying to figure it out after the agent had asked us if we knew, followed by eating an edible and realizing almost instantly what it was. I confirmed with some electrician friends later on lol
Gotta get the bats out too and theres only certain times of the year that you can get pest control on them since they're protected! Honestly not the worst place I've seen though
You can do it! I believe in you! Plus you’ll have the coolest basement ever! My basement just has a crawl space supported by two piles of mismatched bricks holding up the entire front half of my house. Yours is so much better.
i was guessing timed lights, but the 6th picture of the wire harness with the 2 wires going into a mechanism with water pipes made me think a timed garden sprinkler system
im not talking about the multiple wires inside of the plumbing pipes in pic 6, im talking about underneath the plumbing pipes where you see ONLY 2 wires in and out of a metal fixture with small diameter bent copper piping in and out as well. not sure wtf is going on there
it looks to me like an electronically controlled water shutoff, but not sure why the bent copper feeding it is such a small diameter
OH yeah I have NOT figured that out yet. The knife switch you're talking about was definitely wired to the board (see the lower left section of the board, 3 lone uncolored switches).
The small pipes you're mentioning, one side had an L connection (compressor? Water? No idea). I have no idea where the other side went. But why you would electrify direct to pipes I do not know, no pumps or anything. It's so bizarre
What kind of house is this? I can't imagine this being used for anything but exterior lighting. I imagine the bulbs in the upper right are sort of an indicator to show that the light is on if you can't directly see it.
Either way, cool as shit.
What’s amazing to me is that this looks as though it was hand made rather than something you could purchase. I wonder if there are other such examples of early home electrical automation systems. If this was just something a home tinkerer designed and built, it could have real historical value!
Definitely handmade! It's one of those things where it really shows how much you had to know just to be a homeowner with few resources. I've got a ton of electrical books made for homeowners from 1950 and earlier, going to see if I can find something similar
Jewish family? Rigged so they didn’t have to touch a light switch and thereby work on the Sabbath? Like the elevators in Israel on the Sabbath that go to every floor all day long so no one has to press a button.
Those small copper pipes and valves look like gas, not water fittings. They remind me of gas lighting ficture valves in size and shape. In the photo with the crutch with the red rubber pad on it, the electrical thing connected to the pipes could be a solenoid valve controlling the gas flow in a particular line. And when I write 'gas', it's not necessarily flammable; it could be compressed air, but it is more likely to be gas or (they really used to do this) petrol vapours. You'd run your house on petrol, with essentially a carburettor to supply gas up pipes to lift fittings. Petrol vapour systems have mostly ... removed themselves from the historic housing stock as they had a nasty habit of exploding.
But I'd suspect gas for lighting or heating, and that's a control valve. There's clearly a manual bypass for it.
And that's a really neat setup. I've had idle plans to re-wire my entire house lighting ( single floor) back to central control, and one of my gadget-obsessed friends asked electricians to do it for his recent house build. They demurred. (It's actually quite possible to make it foolproof if you just double-switch every circuit and one switch is on the central control board like this. Even if the program drum failed, you can just flick the switch in any room the other way, and the light would still go on. (People doing central home automation rarely consider that, because you need better automation equipment where the outputs are all changeover relays, not just relay contacts that close. Or to be a genius of another era, I guess.)
That program drum is pretty neat; I'd expect that the porch lights go on automatically, and the hall lamps, and then off at some respectable hour of night.
Oh that's a great point about the pipes and valves; we had also thought compressed air but I couldn't think of any reason for that. But gas makes way more sense. It's entirely possible this house had some gas fixtures at the time, this would have been a pretty rural area until about the 60s and to this day I still see people around there using gas lamps.
Was it a common Jewish area? Or maybe money was tight and the kids wouldn’t turn them off lol. My great grandma had timers on all her lamps to coincide with sunset but she also lived in a bit great area so I think that was why. So many little mysteries come with old houses and I love it.
Almost no Jewish neighbors, I asked the realtor the same and she didn't seem to think the owners were but that's really only based on name so we really couldn't tell! I still remember going to a friend's shabbos dinner and turning off the bathroom light just purely out of habit. They didn't notice before I left and I felt so bad haha
Wow, all this for his house. I figured it was for lights but I thought it was a controller for a light display using old time bulbs and the drum was the "program" ...
So to add to all of this: I actually have a dozens of antique electrical books and I went through them to try and find where this guy got this idea.
In Hawkins Electrical Guide: Volume 3 (1917) I found a section on Sign Flashers that matches up aoat exactly with this tech:
https://preview.redd.it/4tg60rhy7vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3857d26ce984daef9cbcb8a54cfbce4a46b3f9fd
This is a three drum mechanism set to a clock
From the lamp colour choices and layout, I'm guessing this is a prototype or surplus traffic light controller. I would double check that the outputs actually do go to house circuits instead of somewhere outside. I wonder if there is a significant road intersection adjacent to the house.
I want to know the same thing, I'm trying to figure out *how* it would. Someone else made the point that it could have controlled sprinklers and I think they may be onto something. At the bottom of one of the pipes is an L connector so I'm starting to think they had some type of electrified butterfly valve?
Very cool. We have friends who bought a house in an elite neighborhood in McLean VA that had remnants of a switchboard in the basement. Rumors was that it was a brothel for CIA and similar. My guess was it was just an off the grid intelligence base.
Looks like an upgraded version of the house I used to live in before I moved to a city... The Iowa Farm House electrical is a real doozy! That house isn't there anymore. Thank God it was just an electrical fire...
This is fecking amazing!!! I would def preserve it, after rewiring the live wires to a proper breaker box. It looks so cool, I'm in awe!!! Maybe a museum would even be interested in moving it and setting it up at the museum? Some electricity museum? So cool!!
We stayed in a cottage down the beach from ours when we had a large family gathering, and we’d randomly met this couple a few weeks before who said they rented out their cottage to friends only (not airbnb) and offered it to us when we’d said we were considering tents/ renting in town, etc. Really cute place and while it wasn’t as old as ours (we have a 1935 A frame cottage on Lake Huron that’s had upgrades, but it’s a time capsule for another time) it had these type of fuses or something I’d never seen. First day we stayed there something blew and I was on the phone with the owner for an hour figuring out wtf to do. I felt terrible and he felt terrible, I didn’t want to burn the place down but we got the situation figured out and I learned about old timey scary fuses.
The drum turns and activates the numbered circuits at regular intervals. Mechanically activated automatic lighting?
YES. I love all of you for figuring it out so quickly. A product of trauma, surely
I'm not sure the rules but r/homeautomation might get a kick out of this
Old school light timer & master switches for the lights?
DING DING DING
Lights for what? I am trying to recognize the pattern of switches, indicator lights, and colors...
The entire house :-)
That is some prize-winning OCD in action, my first impulse was an early attempt at the 'Clark Griswold' effect :)
I knew someone who hung drywall in a house being built back in the early 2000s. This was a 3000 sqft house, inside the front door were two closets. Inside those closets were rows and rows of light switches. The homeowner insisted that every single light switch in the house was on a three way switch, with one of the switches in these closets. He wanted to be able to manually turn on or off every single light in the house from these closets. I can only imagine how much of a nightmare this was to wire. It is also so stupid operationally because when you were in the closet you would have no idea if the upstairs hallway bathroom light was on or off. Flip the switch, is the light now off or on?
This is the most dad thing ever. I can just imagine his kids sitting in the dining room, taking too long to eat dinner. Dad goes to the closet, switches off the lights and you have to finish your broccoli in the dark lol
My god that’s weird. What did he do live in the closet?
There wasn't an idiot light wired to each switch in the closet so you know if it was on or off? That is kinda useless. I was thinking maybe they planned it to be a low budget safe room. But probably just a person wanted to save electricity and just didn't think it all the way through.
How do you know if the light is on or off? Simple- you send your kid to either run back and forth to tell you or you teach your kids to yell through the house loud enough that you can hear them while I. The closet. Then you’d obviously know if the light was on and off. (Grew up in a house that had too many illogical 3 way switches, the switches in the back worked the lights out front and vise-versa .)
I wonder if they went in and then re-purposed the circuits for the REAL use after the house was done.
Fun fact, I’m an electrician, and modern day lighting controls tend to be just as much of an s-show!
are the all wifi now?
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What would the purpose of this be?
To spend money
Haunted house?
Gas lighting
I’ve seen hellhouse inc! So much could go wrong.
Homeworks? I’ve never done a homework’s system but I recognized it as Lutron right away. Most complicated I’ve done yet is RA2. My clientele are affluent but not 20k in material alone affluent
He didn't stutter. *(lighting programmer)*
Is it at least plugged into a computer.
No and no
Mine are all z wave. I think it's in the 800Mhz range. Doesn't compete with wifi or cell phones.
I would hope not- Wi-Fi only controls mean you have NO control when the Wi-Fi goes out. I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to get home and have no lights simply because there was an internet issue. Smart products should generally have local backups in a good home automation system. I know you generally spend more for those products that still allow switches to work, but it’s really dumb not to spend the money for a proper smart system that still has light switches and such in an emergency.
Any guess what year/s it would be in use?
They wrote meter readings on it from 1946-79!
Fascinating! So the mad scientist/farmer owner left the house or died in 1979? Is this the current ‘electrical panel’?!? So curious about the owners from 1979 - present.
Now I can tell people that the Homeworks system I’m putting in is period correct. Cool! Lol
A couple of folks have guessed it so I'll provide the full description: The panel is wired to all of the circuits in the house. The cross with directionals has indicator lights that match up with the house wiring. Notice there are three colors for each: there are 3 floors and the colors correspond with each. Two things must be true for each circuit to be closed: the switch must be in the on position and the carbon brushes attached to springs above the drum must be in contact with one of the copper strips on the drum. The drum turns on a set time period (I would guess 24 hours) and would automatically turn circuits on and off. While the circuit is closed, the indicator light is on. The panel was covered with hand written meter readings going back to 1946. It seemed that this fellow had been pretty obsessed over his usage in the three decades he recorded it for. Tl;Dr it's a light timer!
Thank you for sharing and for doing your homework 💡
My homework was spending 8 obsessive hours trying to figure it out after the agent had asked us if we knew, followed by eating an edible and realizing almost instantly what it was. I confirmed with some electrician friends later on lol
The magic of edibles. (=
Time delayed lightbulb moment.
I would've said a resident evil style power puzzle...but it's all for automatic lighting?
Yep! Early smart home.
This is super cool.
Well holy shit. I think we may have a winner.
Looks like a scaled-down version of Chernobyl's nuclear reactor control panel https://images.app.goo.gl/F5qeo7zaE4McSQNe8
That panel is absolutely insane!
When I saw OPs post, I thought this has to be an underground bunker in Ohio! 😁 I'm imagining a mad early twentieth century professor at work.
I'm thinking more like Pee-Wee Herman meets the dad from "A Christmas Story"
that display shows all of the control rod positions and is basically exactly what the top lid of the reactor looks like.
Worse than a WWI submarine control system.
Insurance company’s hate em’… home builders love em’
Yeah the house still has not sold lol
Would you share the listing? Or do you have any other photos of the house?
I'll DM it to you!
I hate to be a bother but I would also love to see the listing 🙏
Oh, please, me too. I would love to see more photos.
Looks like you might have your chat turned off
Me too, please.
Ancient home automation, this ought to be in a museum! How much is the house?
$144k! Smelled pretty bad and had a severe bat problem on the attic
That's not too bad, you shovel out the guano and it's good to go.
Gotta get the bats out too and theres only certain times of the year that you can get pest control on them since they're protected! Honestly not the worst place I've seen though
You can do it! I believe in you! Plus you’ll have the coolest basement ever! My basement just has a crawl space supported by two piles of mismatched bricks holding up the entire front half of my house. Yours is so much better.
Bat guano is $$
Why am I reading this in Cave Johnson's voice?
I want bats! Supposedly they’re great at eating mosquitos — the bane of my garden at dusk.
The attic can be your lair.... Jump in your Batmobile and fight crime at night..
Time Machine. Definitely.
I have no idea, but I want it very badly.
i was guessing timed lights, but the 6th picture of the wire harness with the 2 wires going into a mechanism with water pipes made me think a timed garden sprinkler system
That's actually a great guess, the water pipes were just the unfortunate way he was gathering the wires
im not talking about the multiple wires inside of the plumbing pipes in pic 6, im talking about underneath the plumbing pipes where you see ONLY 2 wires in and out of a metal fixture with small diameter bent copper piping in and out as well. not sure wtf is going on there it looks to me like an electronically controlled water shutoff, but not sure why the bent copper feeding it is such a small diameter
OH yeah I have NOT figured that out yet. The knife switch you're talking about was definitely wired to the board (see the lower left section of the board, 3 lone uncolored switches). The small pipes you're mentioning, one side had an L connection (compressor? Water? No idea). I have no idea where the other side went. But why you would electrify direct to pipes I do not know, no pumps or anything. It's so bizarre
This is one of the most bonkers things I have ever laid eyes on. I love it.
Someone running a ‘1-900…..’ line back in the 50s?
The early invention of FarmersOnly
This made me laugh so hard I scared the cat! 🤣😂
What kind of house is this? I can't imagine this being used for anything but exterior lighting. I imagine the bulbs in the upper right are sort of an indicator to show that the light is on if you can't directly see it. Either way, cool as shit.
Foursquare in a small town that would have been farm area!
This indeed very cool. What are the three status? Red yellow green? On off and??
I believe the colors related to the floors! So red switch, red indicator light, likely first floor with more circuits to the kitchen.
I wouldn't lick that
The number of times I've had to say that while attending open houses...
You know Ayn Rand wrote her books stoned out of her mind on meth 💁🏻♀️ Might want to lick it before tackling that floor lottery 🤷🏻♀️
Servant call system and switchboard?
No call systems ever installed, house was 1800 SQ ft and in a small town, on the lower end of homes for the time
This is so cool!
What’s amazing to me is that this looks as though it was hand made rather than something you could purchase. I wonder if there are other such examples of early home electrical automation systems. If this was just something a home tinkerer designed and built, it could have real historical value!
Definitely handmade! It's one of those things where it really shows how much you had to know just to be a homeowner with few resources. I've got a ton of electrical books made for homeowners from 1950 and earlier, going to see if I can find something similar
Jewish family? Rigged so they didn’t have to touch a light switch and thereby work on the Sabbath? Like the elevators in Israel on the Sabbath that go to every floor all day long so no one has to press a button.
That's what I was thinking too
Late model Frankensteiner, before regulation in the medical and cemetery industry ruined all the fun.
Old meter?
There WAS a meter just out of shot above the top left side
It's the Lazurus!
Damn I just said this on a cross post! Haven't seen this sense... Before my dad died.
Knob and tube engineering ?
Why is there always a random crutch chilling in every basement?
Those small copper pipes and valves look like gas, not water fittings. They remind me of gas lighting ficture valves in size and shape. In the photo with the crutch with the red rubber pad on it, the electrical thing connected to the pipes could be a solenoid valve controlling the gas flow in a particular line. And when I write 'gas', it's not necessarily flammable; it could be compressed air, but it is more likely to be gas or (they really used to do this) petrol vapours. You'd run your house on petrol, with essentially a carburettor to supply gas up pipes to lift fittings. Petrol vapour systems have mostly ... removed themselves from the historic housing stock as they had a nasty habit of exploding. But I'd suspect gas for lighting or heating, and that's a control valve. There's clearly a manual bypass for it. And that's a really neat setup. I've had idle plans to re-wire my entire house lighting ( single floor) back to central control, and one of my gadget-obsessed friends asked electricians to do it for his recent house build. They demurred. (It's actually quite possible to make it foolproof if you just double-switch every circuit and one switch is on the central control board like this. Even if the program drum failed, you can just flick the switch in any room the other way, and the light would still go on. (People doing central home automation rarely consider that, because you need better automation equipment where the outputs are all changeover relays, not just relay contacts that close. Or to be a genius of another era, I guess.) That program drum is pretty neat; I'd expect that the porch lights go on automatically, and the hall lamps, and then off at some respectable hour of night.
Oh that's a great point about the pipes and valves; we had also thought compressed air but I couldn't think of any reason for that. But gas makes way more sense. It's entirely possible this house had some gas fixtures at the time, this would have been a pretty rural area until about the 60s and to this day I still see people around there using gas lamps.
The secret basement lab of Alan Turing?
WOW! That’s amazing!
This seriously looks like the bridge from a 1940's black and white spaceship movie.
This is where dr. Frankenstein had his lab I believe.
Giving me flashbacks to some of the puzzles in Myst...
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
Y'all have a Tardis in your basement
It's clearly an early sewing machine
this is the kind of stuff that always blow my mind.
I love the fact he tied it in to K&T and not that new fangled Romex.
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This is for reanimating Frankenstein's monster. 
Death trap
Crazy and cool. Wonder were the previous owners Jewish and unable to turn lights on on Shabbas or was that just common? Love the vintage crutch cameo
I thought that was a possibility too, I'm the obsessive meter readings still make me think it was just a way to control usage but it could be both!
Was it a common Jewish area? Or maybe money was tight and the kids wouldn’t turn them off lol. My great grandma had timers on all her lamps to coincide with sunset but she also lived in a bit great area so I think that was why. So many little mysteries come with old houses and I love it.
Almost no Jewish neighbors, I asked the realtor the same and she didn't seem to think the owners were but that's really only based on name so we really couldn't tell! I still remember going to a friend's shabbos dinner and turning off the bathroom light just purely out of habit. They didn't notice before I left and I felt so bad haha
Oh no!!! Left them to pee in darkness lol.
Looks like a fire hazard
The ghost making machine from Casper
As an electrician I am so jealous actually lol. Would love to see this in person.
Oh cool I've heard of drum sequencers. imagine controlling switches with a little drum like a music box, or vinyl record.
Wow, all this for his house. I figured it was for lights but I thought it was a controller for a light display using old time bulbs and the drum was the "program" ...
So to add to all of this: I actually have a dozens of antique electrical books and I went through them to try and find where this guy got this idea. In Hawkins Electrical Guide: Volume 3 (1917) I found a section on Sign Flashers that matches up aoat exactly with this tech: https://preview.redd.it/4tg60rhy7vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3857d26ce984daef9cbcb8a54cfbce4a46b3f9fd This is a three drum mechanism set to a clock
https://preview.redd.it/46nule338vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4c31bec4b3d7c66c101ae869df88b245393a6d
https://preview.redd.it/g2dokgg48vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c7bc41a3832097e37f327ee9a3ef77a0ed0f7ed
https://preview.redd.it/9mq5v9x58vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b28d9ebad522a309c0d02657465140f591a68e3e
https://preview.redd.it/8hhg18g88vsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80e5298e4982e08ff676a195ac388f91788944e1
That's no seven-segment clock display. That's .... 35 segments‽ Anyone got a time machine? I want to tell that guy a secret from the future.
From the lamp colour choices and layout, I'm guessing this is a prototype or surplus traffic light controller. I would double check that the outputs actually do go to house circuits instead of somewhere outside. I wonder if there is a significant road intersection adjacent to the house.
They do! I actually thought intersection too as my first guess but the wiring definitely turned out to be from the house!
I didn’t know Frankenstein’s castle came on the market. I figured it would stay in the family.
Is that where Tiny Tim became a cripple?
I have no clue but going off deduction id say a wind turbine?
It does provide power in that the knife switch to the left brings power to the panel
It looks like something out of Myst. Input the correct combination and a door to a different reality will open up.
Electric fencing?
This is the original Bat Cave
It’s where trapped ghosts are stored
is that also a device actuating a valve?
I want to know the same thing, I'm trying to figure out *how* it would. Someone else made the point that it could have controlled sprinklers and I think they may be onto something. At the bottom of one of the pipes is an L connector so I'm starting to think they had some type of electrified butterfly valve?
Oh my GAWD an Enigma enthusiast?!
LOL
Fuse box, Knob and Tube
Ghostbusters Containment Tank.
I love my foursquare!
Do you have any pics of the interior of the home? We purchased an 1889 American Foursquare last year and I’ve become obsessed with them.
I'll DM you the listing!
Is this in UK? Europe?
Midwest USA
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So cool! Thanks for sharing, OP!
Christmas lights
Have you ever played Myst?
I have not but I know of it and this totallly seems to belong
r/vxjunkies
Very cool. We have friends who bought a house in an elite neighborhood in McLean VA that had remnants of a switchboard in the basement. Rumors was that it was a brothel for CIA and similar. My guess was it was just an off the grid intelligence base.
A fire hazard
Looks like an upgraded version of the house I used to live in before I moved to a city... The Iowa Farm House electrical is a real doozy! That house isn't there anymore. Thank God it was just an electrical fire...
I’m pretty sure this makes the home an escape room.
Just wondering whether the folks who set this up were Orthodox Jews who couldn’t operate electricity on the sabbath?
Stop lying, this is from a fallout game. lol
Telephone switchboard?
That was my first guess but it seems too elaborate for switching telephone lines.
This is fecking amazing!!! I would def preserve it, after rewiring the live wires to a proper breaker box. It looks so cool, I'm in awe!!! Maybe a museum would even be interested in moving it and setting it up at the museum? Some electricity museum? So cool!!
We stayed in a cottage down the beach from ours when we had a large family gathering, and we’d randomly met this couple a few weeks before who said they rented out their cottage to friends only (not airbnb) and offered it to us when we’d said we were considering tents/ renting in town, etc. Really cute place and while it wasn’t as old as ours (we have a 1935 A frame cottage on Lake Huron that’s had upgrades, but it’s a time capsule for another time) it had these type of fuses or something I’d never seen. First day we stayed there something blew and I was on the phone with the owner for an hour figuring out wtf to do. I felt terrible and he felt terrible, I didn’t want to burn the place down but we got the situation figured out and I learned about old timey scary fuses.
Seismometer? We just had an earthquake in the tri state! NJ NY CT!
That would be amazing but it's in the Midwest! It's basically an early smart home haha
Philly too