And the light went out.

[Woodchipper]

Light is on a single pull chain socket in the ceiling. Went into the shop after a trip to the recycling place. Pulled the chain and nothing. Zilch. Nada. Jumped through all the hoops to track the circuit. Found other lights and outlets on the same circuit are showing power. BTW, can't understand why they put outlets and overhead lights on the same breaker. Not how I was taught. Oh well, trip to Lowe's tomorrow. The light over the lathe was OK so I was able to finish the fly fishing pen shown on another thread.

 

[howsitwork]

doesn't make sense having lights and sockets on same breaker ! So if you have a trip situation you're in darkness ? Crazy !
I have emergency battery lights rigged to come on in such a situation . I figure if the power trips when I'm using my saw bench I'd like to see when the blade has stopped before I go find out what happened. Sadly it also used to turn off the power breaker for all the house ( not what you wanted when SWMBO is watching her favourite TV show. ) but after a retire last year it now doesn't do that , saving much grief .

 

[Woodchipper]

Fortunately, I have two lights- over the lathe and over the workbench so I'm OK. Enough light from the basement through the shop door is a plus. When I moved in, I made a schematic of the outlets and overhead lights. Houses were made on the cheap back in the early 70s. Only have two places where walls are at exactly 90 degrees.

 

[randyrls]

Light is on a single pull chain socket in the ceiling. Went into the shop after a trip to the recycling place. Pulled the chain and nothing. Zilch. Nada. Jumped through all the hoops to track the circuit. Found other lights and outlets on the same circuit are showing power. BTW, can't understand why they put outlets and overhead lights on the same breaker. Not how I was taught. Oh well, trip to Lowe's tomorrow. The light over the lathe was OK so I was able to finish the fly fishing pen shown on another thread.

Agreed; I have TWO circuits in my shop. One has all the LED lights, other has all the tools. The tool breaker runs to a high quality 10 plug spot where all the tool cords plug in. I occasionally trip that thing, so I have to be careful on which tools I run at the same time.