Adding a New Circuit to Your Home. (Not)

[Homer J Simpson]

Just when you think you might have seen it all.

This was a random Google find while searching for something else but I had to post. This is a 200 amp mains breaker panel.

Nice way to add a circuit?

http://www.houserepairtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10353&d=1449206138

[Brumby]

Priceless.

[dr.diesel]

That is rediculously, he should have used a ring terminal, 

[v8dave]

Check this for wiring. This was at a wedding in a private home in Indonesia where they installed additional lighting fed from a generator. They ran a 2 core cable around the house and then the lights were installed in this fashion.

Some of the real wiring around this place is scary and the vast majority of fires in homes is from electrical faults. When you see them do this you can understand why.

[AF6LJ]

Here is one for ya...

[Seekonk]

I built a little 5X8 foot office in the basement, something easy to heat.  I joked that it had more outlets, 22, than the rest of the house.  Then I counted one day and it did.

[eugenenine]

Must have been an old network engineer from the 10base5 days.

When I first moved into my previous house we found that the outdoor breaker would kick off every time it rained.  So I started digging up the outdoor light cable and found it was cut and spliced in several places and wrapped with electrical tape.  I ended up digging deeper to get below the frost line and putting in a new lamp post and some conduit to enter the house.  When I traced the old wire back through the garage I found out it went into the house in two difference places, basically there was a loop where it was spliced into the house circuit twice.  I ripped all that out and re-ran the house circuit to replace all the damaged cable and ran a new circuit for the outdoor wiring.

[Seekonk]

I bought an older house and in the breaker box all the ground leads of the newer wires were connected together, but none were connected to ground.

In the basement there was a one foot section of pipe just hanging in space from a wire connected to a clamp.  The clamp had a tag that said, Do Not Remove This Ground Wire.    And they didn't.

[T3sl4co1l]

I bought an older house and in the breaker box all the ground leads of the newer wires were connected together, but none were connected to ground.

In the basement there was a one foot section of pipe just hanging in space from a wire connected to a clamp.  The clamp had a tag that said, Do Not Remove This Ground Wire.    And they didn't.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TMej9_HP-KA/Ty2AF2qQV7I/AAAAAAAAByE/a5t94VxjE6Q/s768/earth%2520ground.jpg?gl=US

[nctnico]

I built a little 5X8 foot office in the basement, something easy to heat.  I joked that it had more outlets, 22, than the rest of the house.

That is easy to achieve. I have around 80 outlets in my office/lab spread over 2 circuits.

[Cubdriver]

Check this for wiring. This was at a wedding in a private home in Indonesia where they installed additional lighting fed from a generator. They ran a 2 core cable around the house and then the lights were installed in this fashion.

Some of the real wiring around this place is scary and the vast majority of fires in homes is from electrical faults. When you see them do this you can understand why.

What's wrong with vampire taps?!?      They're quick and easy!

-Pat

[Cubdriver]

Just when you think you might have seen it all.

This was a random Google find while searching for something else but I had to post. This is a 200 amp mains breaker panel.

Nice way to add a circuit?

http://www.houserepairtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10353&d=1449206138

The red piece is probably #14 to act as a fusible link for the #12 that it feeds. 

In all seriousness, what some people do with mains wiring (even more wrong in places like the US, UK/Western Europe and Australia & New Zealand, where we know better and can easily obtain the parts and the information on doing it correctly is easily and readily available) is truly frightening, and it's amazing that the hack jobs don't cause MORE fires, injuries or deaths than they do.  I don't get what's going through someone's head when they make a connection like that!   

-Pat

[nctnico]

[Ian.M]

That accounts for the western village idiot's attempts at mains wiring, however I think there is something deeper going on here.  In countries where the bulk of the population believes in religions that encourage fatalism, the attitude seems to be that bad wiring wont kill you unless it was your preordained day to die anyway.   The resulting wiring practices make technically educated western agnostics cringe.

[Brumby]

That's being generous.

[grumpydoc]

Check this for wiring. This was at a wedding in a private home in Indonesia where they installed additional lighting fed from a generator. They ran a 2 core cable around the house and then the lights were installed in this fashion.

Some of the real wiring around this place is scary and the vast majority of fires in homes is from electrical faults. When you see them do this you can understand why.

That looks perfectly OK, they used safety pins, after all. 

[jh15]

Just when you think you might have seen it all.

This was a random Google find while searching for something else but I had to post. This is a 200 amp mains breaker panel.

Nice way to add a circuit?

OMG! The wire is wound CCW under the screw!

http://www.houserepairtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10353&d=1449206138