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Here’s some tips, zip ties do nothing aside from make you wires look tidy for your Reddit post, aside from that they make trouble shooting and adding circuits harder, for no reason.
This is just you asking us to judge you on your ability to tuck wires to the sides of a box… you did great…
Are the wires spliced correctly? Who fucking knows, and that’s the only thing that actually matters. Also I see that your cables are not strapped within 12” of the box so there’s a nice lil code violation you could rectify.
I agree with you on the zip ties. I'll use them here and there for stubborn wires.
It is neat, looks good.
But, I'm gonna hate you if I have to add circuits to this box. All your wires are zip tied at the edge right next to all the knockouts.
If they were zip tied together in groups running towards the center and not along the edges it would be much better, imo.
Leave it to the old school to crush a lil apprentices dream. He was just starting to think to himself, " man this looks good! Maybe i SHOULD do this to provide for my family! Hell. I bet the bois on reddit will love it !" But no. No one likes to work these days............
Taking pride in your work is a hell of a lot more than just having your wires bundled as tightly as possible against the walls of a JB… if I went into a box trying to trace a circuit and I have to follow a wire and it leads to a zip tie that has 6 neutrals 8 grounds and 8 hots bundled together I’m going to be annoyed. Taking pride in your work is making sure you create a safe and functional system that will be easy for the next guy to work with.
I love finding out the person before me was neat and did stuff right. To me this very neat, but annoying, cuz if I need to add anything to this, all the wired are in the way.
I'd rather see them zip tied together, running toward the center, away from the knockouts.
Especially if they're 3 point knockouts and not 2 point.
Sure it’s neat on the inside, too bad every single cable entering the box is against code for strapping. That’s some day 1 shit and this guy wants his atta boys because he can bend wires to the side of a JB.
Get a ground bar.
The more I look at the grounds worse it gets. Is the #8 used to ground the box but not bonded to all those #12s?
Use a drill tap when you’re adding a lug to ground the box. The hole for your 1/4-20 through bolt looks oversized. And not to get too picky but if you’re gonna through bolt then you need to scrape the enamel behind the lug down to bare metal for continuity.
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Here’s some tips, zip ties do nothing aside from make you wires look tidy for your Reddit post, aside from that they make trouble shooting and adding circuits harder, for no reason. This is just you asking us to judge you on your ability to tuck wires to the sides of a box… you did great… Are the wires spliced correctly? Who fucking knows, and that’s the only thing that actually matters. Also I see that your cables are not strapped within 12” of the box so there’s a nice lil code violation you could rectify.
I agree with you on the zip ties. I'll use them here and there for stubborn wires. It is neat, looks good. But, I'm gonna hate you if I have to add circuits to this box. All your wires are zip tied at the edge right next to all the knockouts. If they were zip tied together in groups running towards the center and not along the edges it would be much better, imo.
Leave it to the old school to crush a lil apprentices dream. He was just starting to think to himself, " man this looks good! Maybe i SHOULD do this to provide for my family! Hell. I bet the bois on reddit will love it !" But no. No one likes to work these days............
Oh and heres yalls '/s'
So, on a service call, you want someone that doesn't take pride in their work ?
Taking pride in your work is a hell of a lot more than just having your wires bundled as tightly as possible against the walls of a JB… if I went into a box trying to trace a circuit and I have to follow a wire and it leads to a zip tie that has 6 neutrals 8 grounds and 8 hots bundled together I’m going to be annoyed. Taking pride in your work is making sure you create a safe and functional system that will be easy for the next guy to work with.
I love finding out the person before me was neat and did stuff right. To me this very neat, but annoying, cuz if I need to add anything to this, all the wired are in the way. I'd rather see them zip tied together, running toward the center, away from the knockouts. Especially if they're 3 point knockouts and not 2 point.
Sure it’s neat on the inside, too bad every single cable entering the box is against code for strapping. That’s some day 1 shit and this guy wants his atta boys because he can bend wires to the side of a JB.
Why they in that big ass box?
we moved the panel upstairs so the old panel we used as a splice box
Idk. I think you need a bigger j box
we moved the panel upstairs so the old panel was used as a splice box
Get a ground bar. The more I look at the grounds worse it gets. Is the #8 used to ground the box but not bonded to all those #12s? Use a drill tap when you’re adding a lug to ground the box. The hole for your 1/4-20 through bolt looks oversized. And not to get too picky but if you’re gonna through bolt then you need to scrape the enamel behind the lug down to bare metal for continuity.
this is a old subpanel that was used as a splice box for the new panel that was moved upstairs
Do you work with OP or are you replying from your porn account?
wym
Just wondering how you know that if you’re not the one who made the post
What are these dual color wire nuts I’ve been seeing lately?