Hi Everyone,

I am looking for stories of final installations that went wrong for an upcoming class for CEDIA. If anyone cares to share, lots of newbies will get their eyes opened.

I'll start with my favorite final story. Sneaky Pete hates doing prewires for customers who like to buy the system from a chain store, so he wires every system with a sneaky trick. Inside the wall he shorts out the speaker wire with a fuse of about 1/2 amp. Thus, if the customer (or a rival installation firm) hooks up a an amplifier to the wiring, it goes into protect (or up in smoke) as soon as it is fired up. The client eventually calls Sneaky Pete, who declares that HIS amplifier will certainly work fine and simply turns on the amplifier at a loud enough volume to burn the fuse. The system is normal forever more and Sneaky Pete tells me he sleeps fine...