Questionable connections to grounding bus bar

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I believe that this panel services a small cabin, but I’m not totally sure.
Are one or more of the conductors on the grounding bus bar improperly labeled?
I’ve noted the following defects in this panel:

  1. Loose exposed conductors underneath the 30-amp breaker.
  2. A missing knockout plate at the bottom of the panel enclosure.
  3. Foreign object(s) inside the panel enclosure.
  4. Inadequate labelling for each circuit.

Do you see any other problems with the connections to the grounding bus bar at the top?
I’m not totally sure what every conductor is for that’s attached to the grounding bus bar.

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That is the neutral bus. I do not see a ground bar.

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My old eyes are having a hard time since none of the pics can be enlarged…sorry Adam.

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Thanks for the clarification. I do want to call it a neutral bus bar if that’s what it is.

I apologize, Larry. If I thought that I was going to have questions about it, I would have taken pictures with greater resolution.

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I see the open KO and the unterminated conductor but not the other issues.

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I think that it might be the way that they were posted. Usually you can enlarge the photo by clicking on it. In your other thread (defective circuit breaker) the first photo could be enlarged but the rest of them could not. Strange.

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The photos in this post were pulled straight from the Home Inspector Pro reporting software. The software keeps them small in order to make the report file small enough to send via email.

The photos in that defective breaker post of mine were taken directly with my Iphone photo app, which is set to a high resolution. That makes them easier to view on this forum.

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The resolution is blurry from my perch as well and my eyes aren’t that old. When I inspect, I use my iPhone’s native camera to take high resolution pics, then insert those pics into my report so I don’t usually have a resolution issue. Your HIP software might be lowering the file size of the image rendering it low resolution if you use their app to snap a pic. When I use my reporting software to snap a pic, it still saves and displays at high resolution. I’m not familiar with HIP software, maybe there’s a setting you can change?

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There are settings in the HIP App where you can adjust the resolution to meet your needs.

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according to the post directly above yours made ~3 hours prior, it was pulled from the inspector pro software instead of the phone. the software resizes them when storing them also to keep the size small.

is that really two comments that failed to read the comment explaining the small pictures? must be a dave thing, or perhaps it’s a david thing.

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Is this corrosion? I typically call that out.

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I don’t know why but the first one of those photos can be enlarged the other two cannot.

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I cannot tell :rofl:
That’s what I get for the low res photo.
Thanks anyways, Brian.

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The breakers on the left don’t look like Homeline. But again, low res?

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The posts read differently now than the post(s) I/We replied to. Looks like some edits have been made. It happens often on this forum.

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Yep. Some people copy the entire quote in their response to preserve the question and their answer.

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my bad. i had no idea at the time. i learned to pay closer attention today. thanx for that one.

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