Electrical Fire in Cabinet Containing a Panelboard

Originally Posted By: jtedesco
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I wanted to show what could happen after an inspection was made.


Print this out in color, and put it on your clipboard.

The cover was removed from a cabinet containing a panelboard, but not by any type of inspector, instead by a wannabe electrician who knew nothing about wiring except how to tighten screws did some recent "electric kill" work.

Think again, To each his own my friends.

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Joe Tedesco, NEC Consultant

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Originally Posted By: jpeck
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Joe,


I've enlarged the photos, but still can't see them clearly enough to see what went wrong.

Would you explain what you saw during your inspection of it?


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Jerry Peck
South Florida

Originally Posted By: jtedesco
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I did not inspect this, an electrical inspector in the Chicago area sent these pictures to me.



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Originally Posted By: Vince Santos
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And so this is the result of bad wiring methods?



Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.


–Kahlil Gibran

Originally Posted By: jtedesco
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That’s correct! The point of this discussion is that there are too many so-called installers, or those without any clue who think that they can wire up electrical systems anyway they want!


Why would you ask this question? ![icon_question.gif](upload://t2zemjDOQRADd4xSC3xOot86t0m.gif)


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Originally Posted By: jpeck
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jtedesco wrote:
That's correct! The point of this discussion is that there are too many so-called installers, or those without any clue who think that they can wire up electrical systems anyway they want!

Why would you ask this question? ![icon_question.gif](upload://t2zemjDOQRADd4xSC3xOot86t0m.gif)


Joe,

Vince may have taken this statement: "what could happen after an inspection was made" from your beginning post the same way I did.

I took it as meaning that this happened "when" or "after" an inspection was made, and that, somehow, this was a result of that inspection, not the wiring which was in the panel.


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Jerry Peck
South Florida

Originally Posted By: jtedesco
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Quote:
And so this is the result of bad wiring methods?


I answered his question.

Tell me a bit about some of your experiences, where the work done by an unqualified person led to property damage.


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Joe Tedesco, NEC Consultant

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