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Commercial panel failures. Top one fed 24 occupied apartments and happened at night. I was a hero and got them up by the next evening.

Bottom one is a restaurant. I got them temporarily open the by the next night and eneded up having to install a new 600 amp service and all new panels.





Residential service failure. Simple one day job complicated by the various authorities and the AZ heat.






I found this in my warehouse, new IN THE BOX!


AC contractor installed this beauty. I can live with the orange ground wire but come on, at LEAST strip the wire.

te12c02w

Pretty graphic. It looks like in the top picture there is no kind of bushing at all between the panel and pull box? Things go wrong there?

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Jim R

Celtic

Did you tell the people it costs more to put the smoke back in their panels than it would to just buy new?

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There was no bushing/protection. It was a factory rectangle hole, but the fault was in the lower right side of the buss.


We TOLD them MONTHS before this happened that there were "issues" that needed to be addressed but like most people they wait until the freakin thing catches fire.

fridaymean

It also looks like the A/C contractor did not fully seat the fitting he installed. Those threads seem way short.