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#124227 09/04/06 05:47 PM
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SOmebody must have liked running pipe. There is (I looked inside) absolutely no reason that a simple, straight, 8" piece of pipe could not have been used.

[Linked Image]


[This message has been edited by renosteinke (edited 09-04-2006).]

#124228 09/04/06 05:57 PM
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Sure there is no control wiring coming in the back of that 1900 box??


JBIELECTRIC EAST MEADOW NY
#124229 09/04/06 06:08 PM
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wouldn't the thermostats be in the way. aswell.

[This message has been edited by Wizzie Electric (edited 09-04-2006).]


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#124230 09/04/06 07:13 PM
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Correct, Wizzie. So- maybe a little offset, or a 90 into the bottom of the enclosure?

I did look, and that 4-square is there for on other reason than to connnect those two pieces of pipe.

#124231 09/04/06 08:47 PM
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reusing a mistake? didn't want to throw away a perfectly good piece of conduit? [Linked Image]

#124232 09/04/06 09:03 PM
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If that is an FACP, maybe they are planning to run something controlled by an alarm relay through there. Fan? Fire door? elevator homing?
Joe

[This message has been edited by JoeTestingEngr (edited 09-04-2006).]

#124233 09/04/06 09:05 PM
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Maybe it was a ploy to have an excuse to charge more for whatever job that was associated with. Some poor unsuspecting customers won't ask, or assume the contractor is "taking care of them". Money brings out the worst in most people.


Luke Clarke
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#124234 09/05/06 10:02 AM
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If this were done by someone other than a licensed electrician, I would guess that he did this because he did not have a KO punch set for the panel tub (if it's that type).

Mike (mamills)

#124235 09/05/06 05:36 PM
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The gray box is a Pelco camera power supply, that most of them have a section boxed off in the bottom for the transformer, to seperate primary voltage from secondary. There is only a KO on the side to get the 110 in.

#124236 09/05/06 07:27 PM
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I am not sure what the box served. I did open it, and there is also a bottom KO in the same corner. There is also some additional space in the bottom 3", where it would have been possible to make your own KO.

Now, it IS possible that this was an incomplete installation; the "security" contractor was still working when I took this pic.

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