Neat solution for adding another circuit if out of panel space for a breaker.

[ishiboo]

Saw this neat solution for adding another circuit if out of panel space for a breaker.

 

[mrb]

the blue wirenut is too small and the wire is wrapped the wrong way around the screw.

 

[Zrexxer]

Was that installed by Lowes?

 

[MrMark]

the blue wirenut is too small and the wire is wrapped the wrong way around the screw.

; the wire gauge is too small.

 

[ford.crazy]

I usually don't post. I just look for interesteing plans and better was to do thing on here, but I had to say OMG. Please tell me someone did this as a joke or something and that is not live wires. I've seen some bad ideas in my day but this takes the cake.

 

[scanchain]

Looks like an ACD Systems Digital Imaging job (photoshop equivalent).

 

[54FordPanel]

Drywall screws: Is there anything they can't do?

I guess the wirenut allows for future growth?

 

[Indy78]

Opps, looks like they forgot to tape the wire nut.

 

[Steevo]

I think I know that electrician . . .

 

[east_tn_emc]

All I can say is "WOW".....wonder what they were thinking as the screw went in.....

 

[czeto]

The ingenuity of some people is just awesome. I would have just used alligator clips.

 

[KCarGuy]

The only thing that would have been any funnier, is if the screw was "Too" long and went all the way through, and touched the back of the panel!
Surprise...Surprise!

But Seriously...WOW!

 

[ishiboo]

Was that installed by Lowes?

Bahaha... thanks... that made my morning

 

[creativecars]

I bet they didn't separate the neutrals from the grounds, did they?

 

[spongerich]

The only thing that would have been any funnier, is if the screw was "Too" long and went all the way through, and touched the back of the panel!
Surprise...Surprise!

But Seriously...WOW!

That's why you always use staples for a job like this.

 

[Elkiebob]

Don't you need to check your local building code? most require 4 free slots in the panel. I would check to see if electrical needs a permit and inspection as well.

 

[Phog Allen]

As goofy as it sounds to say it, I have found more of this type of garbage work than I ever care to mention. My favourite so far was finding a ten gauge wire attached to the main feeder bus of a 1200A distribution panel/cabinet affair.

It is an old piece of equipment with sections for breakers of various sizes depending on the section you are looking at. It was fed by bus duct and if you remove the front covers the three main buses are right there at the bottom running laterally along the length. Wide open, no blast shields or covering of any kind. This thing is built like a dining room buffet cabinet(about 8 feet long) rather than being upright like an I-line or Spectra panel. Anyway, it is old and dangerous but what is worse is the wire I found. Some genius had drilled and tapped the bus and put a copper grounding lug on it and then attached a 10 gauge wire to it and ran it over to a motor control cabinet and attached it to a tiny little box switch. It ran exit lights or something. Anyway, I would not have want to be near that wire connection if it ever shorted out. That tenner would have evapourated like boiling water during a dead short. Geez, I always like following up brother "electricians" who do this ****.

 

[ddawg16]

Please tell me that is a photo-chopped pic?

I realize there are some dumb people out there.......but I find it hard to belive someone would be THAT dumb......

 

[Buckgnarly]

Would not be so quick to judge..........MacGyver perhaps.......

Reminds me of the work I saw in Iraq, those guys did some scary stuff to tap into the local electrical.....

 

[hemibee69]

Needs some duct tape to pass code

 

[scanchain]

Please tell me that is a photo-chopped pic?

I realize there are some dumb people out there.......but I find it hard to belive someone would be THAT dumb......

The picture creator was "ACD Systems Digital Imaging", i.e. similar to "photoshopped".

 

[ishiboo]

The picture creator was "ACD Systems Digital Imaging", i.e. similar to "photoshopped".

ACD makes photo software, could easily have been imported from a camera and saved. Certainly looks real to me, no hints of having been edited in.

 

[Gigfy]

Whether the photo was "doctored" I don't know. But I do know it's not that uncommon for homeowners to perform electrical work that's pretty unsafe.

In my own house here, the prior owner(s) mis-wired some 3-way switches and in another case used only green thhn individual stranded wire to wire some ceiling fans. They didn't bother to use wire nuts, but simply twisted the wires together (for the leads and neutrals) and wrapped them with black tape.

I've a relative that found someone had wired a circuit in his house with 12v automotive wire.

 

[Highbeam]

Since that is upstream of the main breaker, can we assume that this guy set the drywall screw into the hot conductor? Ignorance is bliss.

 

[keweenawbee]

All you need are rubber boots on. This may be a precisely calculated over current device, sort of like the early Edison bulb filaments.

 

[gatchel]

I had the inspector that inspected my garage look at that tap and he said it was fine...

 

[ishiboo]

All you need are rubber boots on. This may be a precisely calculated over current device, sort of like the early Edison bulb filaments.

We have a winner! It's a "fusable link"... GM uses them all the time

 

[Greatbear]

I hope that's a left-hand threaded screw!

 

[tmars]

It is amazing what people will do to get something to work. It shows a very think out of the box kinda guy.

 

[frank_c]

and i thought finding a duplex outlet with 8 wires hooked up to it was bad...