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On the lighter side: the basics of grounding
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I wish I had saved pictures like that. Over the years, I have seen things that make you laugh, things that make you cringe, and things that make you want to cry.
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From a few days ago. The panel is attached to the conduit on the right, and the ground wire nicely coiled around the ground rod...
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Also looks like they used a "wood block" (drilled out to form a 90) at the top of the conduit instead of an elbow. God knows what else lurks in this structure.
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Don't forget good grounding, even when you 'only need a little power'
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WHAT IDIOT DID THAT! Everyone knows you need to wrap the wire clockwise around the screw!!
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I found something like this by accident. I was working in an old house, and kept tripping the GFI, testing each outlet. A guy living on the other side of the house came over and started screaming at me to "Leave the F***ing power alone. Then it dawned on me. How could what I was doing affect his house. So I got the apartment owner to stand next to me and then shut off his Circuit Breakers for his apartment. 30 seconds later this fool came over again screaming. I told the apartment owner to call the police RIGHT NOW. The screamer had to pay a fune of 10.000 Euro, for estimated theft of power. He had crawled out his roof window and came in the owners attic. Took a plug out of the wall and drilled a hole through the socket hole, into his attic. Hooked up three wires to the outlet and put it back into the wall. Went back to his place and wired up several room with his "New Hookup."
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Looks can be deceiving sometimes...Also looks like they used a "wood block" (drilled out to form a 90) at the top of the conduit instead of an elbow. God knows what else lurks in this structure.
The wood block is a rafter that is hiding a 90 bend in the conduit, but yes, I believe that there was knob and tube wiring on the other side until fairly recently. Clearly the rewire did not address grounding the subpanel...All the best,
2Pbfeet