The defect is…
Ben,
Maybe I am a bit undersigted tonight but what are the red wires doing on the grounded terminal buss…and how about that grounded terminal wire not being identified with white marking like TAPE if a field installation…
And I can’t tell in the picture if the bar is actually bonded to the panel…
those would be for starters what I see…but it is a bit blurry…
True, and true, but not what I am looking for.
Ben, good one here are some questions not answers
- Is the enlosure bonded?
- Are the later Bryant GFCI’s rated for the panel?
- There appear to be very few neutrals on the bus in relation to the apparent branch circuits?
- Are the breakers rated to the branch circuit wiring?
Did I miss a big one?
Regards
Gerry
Oh sorry…Article 200.7, 200.6(B) are the ones I am refering to in regards to the conductors on the Grounded and Grounding Buss.
well Ben…you have a better view of the image than us my friend…enlighten us old fellows…
I do see a ITE breaker in a Bryant Panel…along with a Bryant Breaker as well…and another one almost looks like a CH breaker as well.
I know one thing…their is one freakin Grounded Conductor that is about to toch that HOT buss…lol…
Look on the bus bars… This is a three phase panel and the owner (who was an engineer) disconnected the connection on the “c” phase and places a piece joining the “b” and “c” phases so he could add another breaker. This takes away the u.l. rating and is an extreme hazard when someone welds and taps a piece on the buss.
Sorry…the image was too busy for me to see that via an image…lol…but since I found other things…defer it…I will fly out and look at it…NOT…lol
Great BEN…now you have given others who have a 3 phase panel that they concern a way to do it…thanks alot…thehehehe…
I wondered what the bar was in the middle…but heck seen so many panels I figured it was part of the equipment…would have been EASIER if you had shown the TOP of the panel as well fella…you tricky devil
I thought the weld, and the bolt there would be a give a way. Put them glasses on.
Man I do wear glasses…and maybe they have TOO much ARC BLAST on them…heck if I know…lol…man if you take the nearly 5,000 panels I have looked at ( maybe more ) in my time…that little fuzzy WELD did not stick out…lol…but the items I posted did…lol
Hey…I aint PERFECT fella…Far from it…oh…yeah…Fat and Blind also…
Paul, I am sure that is an old ITE EQ loadcenter. The Bryant breakers are the misfits.
Everytime I see one of those old EQs I am impressed
at the quality and longevity.
It is an ITE.
Are ground and neutral wires allowed to be connected to the same bus bar? I always thought they weren’t. Am I wrong??
In a main panel (service equipment) they are. The bars are one in the same.