A hotel called me for an unrelated problem- but I couldn't help but notice the new photo-cell that had installed. Let's take the run from the beginning....

First, they ran from the panel to a completely unnecessary box (left open). perhaps this was because thay had no other way to connect the PVC 90 to the EMT:





Then the pipe was run "Playtex style" (without visible support):





Yes, that IS a zip-tie holding it up:




Finally, the photocell:






[This message has been edited by renosteinke (edited 12-01-2006).]

wow. thats awful. Those offset EMT connectors seem to always get used incorrectly.

By what that overhang and all of the electric looks like, call in the backhoe for improvements.

Ian A.

Er... What is the photocell actually controlling? Just that in that box I see a red and a white, but no mention of a light or any load between the panel and the photocell, and do photocells need 3-wires ( hot, neutral and switched )?


Ian: Have a lil' flavour for destruction don't ya? Don't worry I agree with you 110%

A.D

Wires leave the back of the box that supports the photocell. It controls the lights in front of the doors (which open to the parking lot).

That would be an understatement.

Ian A.

I will have to see if I can find some of the pictures of my "tools of destruction" from my high school days. I think just about every kid loves a good explosion now and then

That reminds me of a TV show some years ago in which the narrator was adding suitably sarcastic comments as we were treated to a tour of some "fixer upper" house (I think it was on how to translate real-estate jargon into plain English).

I always remember the line when we were shown some particularly poor aspect of the house:

"Nothing a spot of demolition wouldn't cure!"