BURNED WATER HEATER OUTLET

Burned Water Heater Outlet

I just received a message in my Messenger from a known friend. She is worried about the outlet of her single point, wall mounted Water Heater.that just got burned. She called an electrician to check the problem and the electrician suggested replacing the burnt outlet with a circuit breaker.,

What is the problem?

Water Heater consumes a higher load compared to other common appliances or utility equipments in our home. Because of this, a higher rating of wires, outlet devices, and overload protective devices or circuit breakers are required enough to carry the current and ensure safety upon its use. In this case, I suspect that the outlet device used is underrated. It won't burn or melt instantly because the time of use for the water heater is intermittent. It takes time to for the element plate to deteriorate until it can no longer handle the heat produced in it. 

It is also possible that there is loose contact between the terminal and the inserted wire. It may also be possible that the strand of wires was lessened just to be able to insert the wire easily, which is not permitted. Correct installation and good workmanship are very important in electrical installations. Safety of an electrical system relies on this, in addition to proper material specifications.

Outlet devices to be used for water heaters must have a rating capable of carrying the current drawn by the appliance.load. Using an underrated device will surely cause a problem anytime and the worst thing is that it can be a possible source of fire. 

HOW TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF LIGHTING FIXTURES IN ONE CIRCUIT

How To Determine The Number Of Lighting Fixtures In One Circuit

Many asked, what is the maximum number of lighting outlets for a 15A or 20A circuit breaker, and what is the maximum number of convenience outlets in a 20A circuit breaker? I often hear these questions from friends in the construction field repairing designs for projects. Electrical Plan is one of the design plans required in acquiring a building permit in the Philippines before execution by the owner or its contractor. Some limit the number of lightings in one circuit to 12, and 8 for convenience outlet. Ideally, this is a good practice, but are these the maximum allowed numbers? I'll show you below how to determine the maximum ideal number of lighting fixtures in one circuit.

As a reference for a 15A circuit breaker, we use 2.0mm square stranded wire or #12 AWG for the circuit.

Given Parameters: 

Nominal Voltage: 230Volts

Circuit Breaker rating @ 80% Safety Factor: 12Amperes

Total Computed Load in Watts: ____, to be determined

Formula:

P = I x V

Where,

P is the total computed power in Watts(W)

I is the total current available in Amperes(A), and

V is the given voltage 

P(Watts)= 12A x 230V

                = 2,760Watts

So, the maximum allowable wattage for the lighting circuit is 2,760watts. Assuming we have light bulbs with 50Watt ratings, the total number of lighting fixtures for this circuit is,

No. of Lighting Fixtures= 2,760W/15W, which is 55. 

Now we know the maximum number of lighting fixtures for this circuit is 55 sets. Where can this be applied? I have applied this in a function room and a hallway of a hotel project, also in residential, but the number of fixtures reached only to about 30 sets. The number of lighting fixtures depends on their application and the zone location. For example, you have 15 lighting fixtures for the kitchen, dining, and living area, 10 in combined bedrooms, and 25 at the exterior is good for each lighting circuit. In reality, we don't really need to reach that 55-sets mark, but it is not economical to limit the number of lightings in a circuit due to not knowing the allowable number of sets. The advantage of the zoning arrangement of lighting circuits is to lessen the affected area when trouble occurs to a specific circuit

HOW TO DETERMINE THE SIZE OF WIRES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE OUTLETS

How To Determine The Size Of Wires For Special Purpose Outlets

Here is another concern I frequently hear from an online group of electricians. I understand that some of them are new, and others are in the group to learn. In most cases, special-purpose outlets are those that consist of loads like the water heater, electric ranges, refrigerators, and home appliances that have higher loads and are usually fixed in their locations.

In this case, we only cover non-complicated and individual appliances for the sake of first-hand ideas or knowledge in this regard. The very first thing to put in mind is that the size of wire or cable to be used must be able to carry the current drawn by the utilization equipment or load. The circuit breaker must also coincide with the wire or cable rating to ensure safety.

The best reference in determining the size of wire or cable, including the size of the circuit breaker protection of the unit is the equipment's nameplate rating usually placed at the back of the equipment's body or enclosure. Usually, what is given are the voltage, current, wattage, frequency rating, and the phasing. Knowing the wattage or current rating, you are given the idea and you can come up with the proper size of wire and its circuit breaker protection.

Fig. 1. Mini Ref

                                                    

Fig. 1 Photo shows a sample specification rating at the upper right corner of a mini-refrigerator. 

 Fig. 2. Mini Ref 

                                                             

Fig. 2 Enlarged photo of the sample specification rating at the upper right corner of a mini-refrigerator.

Only, you should always remember that the current ampacity rating of the wire to be used shall, in no way, be lesser than the current rating of the equipment serve, There are also other technical considerations that have to be considered when coming up with the proper sizing of circuit wires and circuit breaker protection. Continuous loads, motors loads, the distance of the load or equipment served, and others. I will be discussing them next as I go on with my blog.  

IGOROT CHEF: THE TASTE OF THE HIGHLANDS

When I go to other places, food is the next thing after the attractions, I always try to look for the delicacy offered for visitors and tourist. I had been to Baguio City and some parts of Benguet Province and I have these experiences when it comes to food that is served, different from what is available in common restaurants around. The problem is that I have not found a sustainable restaurant catering to these delicacies anytime I, my family, friends, or even with my visitors need to eat there  I'm quite sure visitors to this cool place also look for such an experience, and why not.

Lately, there is already one here in Baguio City. Maybe you have heard of the IGOROT CHEF RESTAURANT...It caters to real delicacies of highlands, something different to what other restaurants are offering on the table, at a fair price. Pinikpikan by the Kankanaeys is one of the most familiar chicken food cooking in the Cordilleras, but if you are at IGOROT CHEF RESTAURANT, it does not end to that. You would also surely like to experience the Kini-ing of the Ibaloi's, the native of Benguet. Aside from these two frontline delicacies of the highland are other twists of menus for you to choose from.

The IGOROT CHEF RESTAURANT is located at the Lower Ground Floor of the Pilando Center, Magsaysay Avenue, Baguio City. The building is next to the jeepney terminal going to La Trinidad. When you get to the entrance of the building, just ask the security guard to assist you to the lower ground, and there you are. The best thing about this is that you need not have to go far or out on the outskirts of the city to dine in.

There is also another restaurant catering to the food of Benguet. This is popular with visitors and tourists going to TAM-AWAN VILLAGE, one of the tourist spots in Benguet just near to Baguio City. People mistakenly say that Tam-awan Village is in Baguio, but the place is already a part of Benguet. 

I am referring to the FARMER'S DAUGHTER Restaurant. It is located just next to the entrance of the Tam-awan Village, and it is along the road. 

Come and experience the taste of the highlands.

FRANCIS LEO MARCOS CITED WITH THE MARCOS FAMILY

1. A video when Francis Leo Marcos and wife Mayu Murakami handed their wedding invitation to IMELDA MARCOS.  

                                

2. Francis Leo Marcos attended the funeral of the death of one sister of the late President Ferdinand Marcos.

3. Francis Leo Marcos is with the sister of the late president, Fortuna Marcos Barba, together with his siblings when they extended donations of rice to typhoon victims in Pasay City way back in 2013(The Philippine Star, Oct. 7, 2013).

Francis Leo Marcos has never made any formal admission that he is in any way related to the First Family. When asked, his only reply is,

 "IT IS A PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION BUT I HAVE NOT THE LIBERTY TO DIVULGE ANY INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE FIRST FAMILY. I AM A MARCOS, AND THEY ARE A MARCOS".

FRANCIS LEO MARCOS IN THE EYES OF CRITICS

THE STORY

As days go by in the time of this pandemic, Francis Leo Marcos never stopped extending help to the needy, especially for food. This was his promise when he happened to see families and other people alongside the streets of Manila. It can be recalled that he has been doing philanthropic activities as early as 2007 through his foundations, with his friends and relatives.

SOCIAL MEDIA

With this, Francis Leo Marcos gained massive attention through social media. His first media appearance was when he and two of his men went live on Facebook buying sacks of rice and other goods from a Department Store, cooked, packed, and distributed it to the people including front liners implementing the lockdown guidelines. This was also the time when he challenged his neighbors in Green Meadows Subdivision to also come out and do something, for the government may not sustain the food allowance all over the country. This caused irritation to his neighbors, and few individuals started coming out in the media full of criticisms and allegations directed to him. 

When his Facebook Page was taken down the next day, he shifted to YouTube to continue airing his activities and the MAYAMAN CHALLENGE(Challenge For The Rich). He amazingly gained one million subscribers within one month and a week, without first knowing that YouTube pays its members after meeting its two primary requirements- at least One Thousand subscribers and Four Thousand watch hours. He is now monetized with about One Million Seventy Thousand plus subscribers up to this time.

THE CRITICS

As expected, critics are piling up doing all means to discredit, raise negative issues, and libelous accusations against his activities and personality. One sad thing is that these critics keep trying to connect him to the Marcoses, since he is using the last name, MARCOS, Marcos. Francis Leo Marcos warned his critics for their libelous attacks and he will be meeting them all in the proper court soon.

                                      

There were attempts by Radio Station hosts interviewing Bongbong Marcos asking if he knows or if he is related with Francis Leo Marcos, but the latter denied any because ever since there were persons claiming that they are a son or brother of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, or they are the real Bongbong Marcos. 

Politics is divided into two large groups in the Philippines. One is the SOLID MARCOSES who also support the leadership of President Duterte and a smaller group who are supporters of the Liberal Party or what we call here as the Yellows. Few MARCOS Supporters abhor what Francis Leo Marcos is doing, which is giving his all in today's time of the pandemic. They feel bad because of the reality that they are jealous or they just can not accept that there is one person doing greater things compared to what they can only do. A CRAB MENTALITY running in the veins of few Filipinos. 

FRANCIS LEO MARCOS AND THE "MAYAMAN CHALLENGE"

The Challenge

The epidemic COVID-19 virus led Francis Leo Marcos to come in the open challenging all politicians out there to fulfill their promises during the election campaign, and including the rich. His challenge was vocal, brave, demanding, and something sarcastic. His action draws positive and negative reactions from those who heard his challenge irritating the subdivision homeowners.

He said he had been doing humanitarian activities since young but this is the only time he came to challenge others to help the hungry and also the government. He drove around inside the subdivision in his white Mustang, carrying his challenge and pointing to his neighbors, but without dropping a single name. He said I know there is a hero inherent to every man and woman. Let’s awaken them. If this is the only way to awaken the hero inherent to every man in our land, every good man in our land, and every rich man in my subdivision, so be it

Gone Viral

I was one of those who watched his first live stream through FB. He and two of his boys heading to a department store buying about 10 sacks of rice and sort of food packs. This is to feed people and families along the main streets of Manila, including front liners they happen to pass by. The Activity continued down to some barangays. Up to this day, he was able to reach out about 200 tons of rice according to one of his latest reports. He didn't accept donations. He advised donors to be the ones to reach for those who are in need, and it would be great for him. 

His live videos started trending, reaching viewers far more than what the top vloggers and other organizations have attained in their streaming. Filipinos are compassionate, especially when you do something good and extraordinary to others. Your personality, whether good or bad, you're a hero. There are continuously growing number of respondents accepting and duplicating what he is doing. Giving food to the needy, big or small. Today, his YouTube channel already reached more than 640,000 subscribers while his FB page was taken down.

Who is Francis Leo Marcos

He confessed that Francis Leo Marcos and Norman Antonio Mangusin are one.  He was named Francis Leo Marcos, because, according to him, his mother was greatly inspired by the great deeds of the late President Ferdinand Marcos and the first lady. His mother is an Igorota-Ilocana from Baguio city. he is married to Mayu Murakami in July 2019, who was crowned Miss Universe Japan in 2013. There is no information regarding his father. 

Francis Leo Marcos is a businessman, a Philanthropist, and CEO & Chairman of Marcos Group of Companies since 2005. He is also the chairman of the Volunteer Against Poverty Foundation, Inc., and also the chairman of the Oriental Perlinian Foundation. He studied high school at the National High School of Massachusetts Bay Belmont and graduated a degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, in 1997. He presently resides at Green Meadows, Pasig City, Manila.

Francis Leo Marcos has long been doing outreach programs and it's only known to the communities where the activities were conducted. There were charges filed against him in the past in relation to his philanthropic activities but all were acquitted. Lately, he received a summon for alleged alarming scandal and unjust vexation from the homeowners of the subdivision in which it has yet to be addressed.

He once appeared in a national newspaper(The Philippine Star, Oct. 7, 2013) donating 5 tons of rice to 2,000 families in Pasay city in his efforts to fight starvation in the country being the Chairman of Francis Leo Marcos Foundation. Together with him was his aunt Fortuna Marcos Barba the sister of former President Ferdinand Marcos and siblings Chito, Dino, and Fidel Barba Marcos.