Unbelievable Garage Door Opener Electrical...

[Wingnut65]

Saw this and just had to post it. Unbelievable...

At least one person finally had enough sense to document it and hopefully cut the power.

http://www.wimp.com/doorinstallation/

 

[Aceman]

Uhhh, what's wrong with it?

The homeowner wanted cheap and there wasn't a permit pulled, so this is what they got. They were so happy to finally have working electric door openers, the details don't really matter...

P.S. Anyone need a clotheshanger too?

 

[Teken]

Saw this and just had to post it. Unbelievable...

At least one person finally had enough sense to document it and hopefully cut the power.

http://www.wimp.com/doorinstallation/

I don't see anything wrong with that install save the fact that none of the wires are color coordinated!

But, thats just me . . .

 

[Nova_Guy]

That was some fine work. No expense spared.

 

[Rogue1987]

Fantastic! Look at all the extra electrical tape and staples they used when they really didn't have to!

 

[ElectroLight]

Ya, a true classic!

 

[Wingnut65]

That was some fine work. No expense spared.

And no expense spent either!

And to think that installation powers 2 garage door openers. What a bargain!

 

[Falcon67]

That reminds me, its getting close to light install time...

 

[Rich H.]

Somebody's got MAD SKILLZ

 

[930dreamer]

Great video.

 

[D KRAGER]

That's classic!!

 

[rvr6000]

Looks like I wasted a lot of money running service out to the garage.....I've got a hundred of those little brown extension cords.....some with a little dry-rot around the plug even. Would have been perfect. Probably could have used a few strings of Christmas lights too.

 

[Toolfool]

Saw this several years back. As a licensed general contractor, I had fun sending it to all my electrician friends. We see stuff like this all the time.

 

[smsteve]

Hey, at least they have electric openers! I have to unlock my garage and then grab this exterior mounted handle and using an upward lifting motion actually open the damn thing MYSELF! WTF? This guy's install is light years ahead of mine...

 

[vette66bob]

Installation included!
The owner brought the whole package.
There are a few extra receptacles available for maybe an 110v welder and a compressor.
Reminds me of the movie Christmas Vacation Chevy Chase would be jealous...

 

[Mike662]

That's a great, classic video. It just keeps getting worse and worse, and when you think you've seen it all, it keeps going.

And I thought mine was bad. When I bought my house, the PO had used an old droplight with a long cord as an extension cord to run the opener. The light end was duct taped to the rafter next to the opener, which was plugged in to the socket on the light.

 

[sberry]

While its funny,,, and isn't at the same time as long as no one plugs in additional load to the power strip all will likely be fine, obviously its working. Certainly nothing is grounded. We really should have gfci here, ha
I wonder what the real statistical risk is here, would be one set of numbers for shock and could be another for overload.

 

[sberry]

I found an old install a while back in old house, lamp cord had been used to feed kitchen light, no one knew it was there for 50 yrs. Served a 100 watt lamp.

 

[Jonboy1974]

Looks up to code to me.

 

[brokenknee]

I think the guy that did that either owned the house I now have or worked in it. Had as similar install for my garage door openers when I purchase the house this spring.

It is a "project house" and still finding many code violations. Example, holes in sheet rock in one of the bedrooms, decided to pull sheet rock off instead of trying to patch six or seven holes. Once I had the sheet rock off I found one hot wire laying there not even capped off, another wire that was spliced but not in a box. I also found this when I tore out the sheet rock,in the kitchen to redo that. Up in attic wires spliced not in box. dryer vented to attic.

The list goes on, turning out to be more of a project than I had planned on.