12VoltInstalls
life passes by too quickly to not live in freedom
There is a conundrumof what we talk about here just dosent pass code
If it’s safely done by someone who knows enough to know what they don’t know…
Today I installed a masthead on an LB to pass through the metal siding on my buddy’s barn so the powerco would hook him back up. He bought the property a few years back but the powerco said the wire passing through the metal was not ok (the original sheetmetal pass-through having rotted away probably decades ago and the powerco pulled the cables off at the pole at some point).
For grins, I pulled the cover off the antique cutler sub-panel only to discover the 60A tied main breaker was doubled- the two main cables were inserted in the 60A breakers along with the feed to the 3-prong 240 outlet for a welder or whatever previous owner had. So no breaker to the 240 outlet.
The multiple other existing 20A outlets were not GFCI and this is a dirt floor building. Probably predates GFCI but still: what else is wrong when the welder socket wasn’t even breakered.
Stuff like that keeps folks like us under the scrutiny of ordinances and lawyers at the insurance company.
Today we have means of acquiring equipment that produces enough volts and amps to create fire, and some folks connect it with insufficient gage wire to an oversized huge modsine inverter that produces deadly voltage, and then they try to run the microwave and 10,000 devices off that.
I mean this forum is great but how many times each week do people post questions trying to fix some totally wonked install. I’m not making fun of anyone, but this is a reality.