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The sloppy workmanship in pic. no. 2, along with the poor job of load balancing (4 - 20 amp breakers to one leg and 1 - 15 amp breaker to the other leg) bothers me, too. [Linked Image]

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Just reminiscing to when I first joined ECN and sent these in.. [Linked Image]

I don't miss the headache this place was though... [Linked Image]

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I enjoyed seeing the multiple choice selection of circuit breakers.

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What's with Pic #6? Someone please tell me that's NOT the old SE


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Even though Austria is MUCH more relaxed on conduit connections than the US (metallic conduit doesn't exist here unless it's a real hard industrial setting, and with PVC there's the general attitude "sticking it into the appropriate size knockout is perfectly enough"), this one looks BAD to me!

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Hemingray, thats the old triplex, straight from the poco.. with #6 THWN blue wirenutted and draped on the roof to that riser mess in the 9th pic [Linked Image]

I remember the grab bag selection of breakers also... gotta love the Bryant 30A 2P with the handle tie pried off [Linked Image] almost as good as the 40 year old Westinghouse twins...

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Randy,
In pic #4, has there been something snapped off of that "pan-unit" (part that holds the breakers).
I mean, it looks like them two bits of plastic either side of the Neutral bar had something attached to them at one time.

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Although this is an old thread, it's a classic. I can't say I have seen anything so bad. I'll bet that installation it would fly in Tijuana with no problems though. It does look a lot like Mexican electrical work.


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So those red handles are Westinghouse breakers? That had me scratching my head trying to figure out how you would get Stab-Loks to fit a Westinghouse bus!

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Mike,
Those plastic pieces you're speaking of are basically there to aid in wire routing around the neutral bar (AFAIK). [Linked Image]

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