Originally Posted By: Bob Badger This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
The upper picture looks like a foot lug has been jammed into the panel terminal.
That is definitely a violation.
The other two pictures of insulation piercing connectors may be fine.
The use of these inside the enclosure is fine, what I do not know is what they are feeding and the where the overcurrent protection is for the tapped conductors.
You say the main feed is 2/0 AL and it looks like the connector says 1/0 to 8.
A couple of questions
1) Did you see that the wire leaving the breaker is 2/0?
2) These connectors should have two ratings one for the tap and another for the run.
Originally Posted By: Brian A. Goodman This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I see “ITT” on that piercing device, who used to own “Blackburn”. By now who knows.
I've never seen anyone stick a mechanical lug in a terminal lug like that before. Gives the term "double-lugging" new depth. Bob's right of course, not acceptable.
Originally Posted By: Bob Badger This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hopefully JP will step in, I am sure he would know the right way to put it.
A little more here, am I correct that the 8 AWG tap of the 200 amp feeders go to feed the small panel on the left. Then they are tapped again with 10 or 12 AWG to feed something out of sight?
You have some major defects here that need to be addressed.
Jerry where are you? 
Originally Posted By: jpeck This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
hgordon wrote:
Hey Jerry...after Frances blows by...wanna get together for coffee?
I dont have my nextel any longer...want my cell number?
Sure, e-mail me.
I don't know what my schedule is, other than I have a large house in Jupiter to do (was scheduled to do it Wed. but the builder and I figured we might as well wait until after the hurricane to check it out). Then I may have some re-inspections starting to come up in an area where I did 1 year warranty inspections and they had major problems, Frances may have exposed some of those problems I brought up and the builder pooh-pahed.
I've got to check with Lois when she gets back on Tuesday (she live in Palm Beach Gardens and left town Friday to avoid the hurricane) to see what my schedule is.
The rest of this weekend I've gotta bust my butt on these reports for over at Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda.
Originally Posted By: jpeck This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
hgordon wrote:
OK...same here.
By the way..set aside Thursday the 16th...that wil be our next Chapter Meeting.
How about we make it Tuesday the 7th? So we can join the meetings together? If not, I will check on Thursday the 16th, but will keep trying to combine them.
That is my ultimate goal, making a local meeting FOR ALL local inspectors and why I am 'separating' the ASHI part out of it.
