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Started doing my panel labels with a label maker and a tiny font size 3 months ago
I went back to a house I wired in 2019 to swap a breaker and actually found the right circuit on the first try because the tiny labels were still crisp and not smudged, has anyone else switched to smaller text for permanent results?
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olivia5734mo ago
Why would you want tiny text that's a pain to read unless you're standing right over the panel with a flashlight? I tried that size and ended up squinting and second-guessing myself every time, plus the adhesive on the label backing started peeling off after a year in my garage's humidity. Give me a nice bold font I can read from three feet away any day over something that's technically permanent but useless if you can't actually see it.
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faith_schmidt4mo ago
Wait, you're actually reading labels from three feet away? In what world do you have that kind of clearance in front of a panel? Most of my service calls end up with the panel shoved in a corner behind someone's holiday decorations or a pile of storage boxes. I can barely get my face within a foot of the thing most times. And as for the adhesive peeling, are you cleaning the panel surface before you stick them on? Because if there's even a little dust or old paint fleck, that stuff will let go in a week, not a year. But yeah, I get the squinting part - I keep a magnifying flashlight on my truck just for those 4-point font labels. It's a tradeoff for sure.
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