Wrenches,
The other day on my travels, I came across a very scary small stand-alone
hunting shack install. All the wiring is cut extension cords and some UF, the
cable from the charge controller to the batteries is an extension cord with the
14s paralleled. mice chewed wire, splices taped and laid on the ground, mis
matched modules (least of the problems). not a disco or OCPD to be seen.
Also a 500W wind generator 100 yards from the battery bank, feed with #10s and
then spliced to #12s (most of it just laying on the ground.
Now I think the owner should have some responsibility to stop work when the see
things this awful, but what can/should we as an industry do about this? What do
we say to people that install stuff like this? Take them to court?
A small 2500w with surge of 5000w inverter was used here with 6 paralleled 12V
deep cycle batteries. Powering a few lights and a vacuum at first, a well pump
was added later. I could see the lights and vacuum, but a pump? How do you go
about wiring the output of an inverter like this? From a receptacle on the
inverter to what? This guy cut an extension cord off and splice it to some NM
and ran it inside to the loads. No breaker, I just can't get over the fact this
guy sleeps at night...
You should see the photos of this mess...
Thank you for your thoughts,
Jesse
Sent from my iPhone
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