Turn him in with all the pics, and invite the inspector to come see
before you fix it.
Its the only way to stop this sort of thing.
DIY is the owner's problem, but anybody getting paid to install should
know what they're doing, no excuses.
I've seen so much BS, I'm really getting sick of it. Send me the pics
and I'll give you credit on my Horror Installs page.
Ray Walters
On 5/13/2011 1:08 PM, Jesse Dahl wrote:
All,
It was confirmed that this work was done by a local "contractor"
through photographs. Very poor workmanship. The best one of the job
was the UF that was used as the PV output circuit had the black and
the white paralleled as the "+" and the bare ground was used as the
"-". Unbelievable.
Jesse
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Subject: [RE-wrenches] Dangerous installs/installers..
From: Jesse Dahl <dahlso...@gmail.com <mailto:dahlso...@gmail.com>>
Date: Sat, May 07, 2011 2:45 am
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org
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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
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