I know what you mean Reno. One of my few red tags was a 2000 sqft equipment rooms with all the disconnects neatly grouped by the door. I told the installer to go take the covers off one of the 480v air handlers at the far end, start poking around in the wiring box and I will call "maintenance" to complain about my AC not working. Maintenance man opens the door and says "here's your problem".
They got the point. In fact what we got was an additional disconnect at each machine.
They were thinking the disconnect was for firemen entering the room to fight a fire. I pointed out you are also protecting the people who maintain the boxes.
I also got another entrance to the room. (actually a tall attic)
It is amazing what engineers can come up with when they get on board. They found a "pull down" attic ladder that was class 1 and handled a 14' ceiling. It may have actually been custom built. Very slick.
