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This is a church electrical service somewhere in the United States. Names will be omitted to protect the guilty. Working space? We don't need no stinkin' working space. Can you find the six service disconnects? I only see four.

Here's the fifth disconnect (below), to the left of the CT cabinet.
But where is the sixth?

Found it! It's in the corner just a few inches off the floor.

But wait, what's this? Look in the upper right corner of the picture below. There is a seventh disconnect for an emergency circuit. Does this violate 230.71?

The second exit from the room is blocked (see photo below). The Greenfield coming out of the disconnect runs close to the floor where it could be subjected to physical damage from things like racks full of folding chairs.

The electrician who installed this disconnect tried to get away with running the load-side conductors together with the line-side conductors through the same conduit and back through the trough. Naturally, it failed inspection, hence the Greenfield as a quick fix. You can see the other end of the Greenfield in the third picture.

Getting into other areas, here is bottom of a rack of audio equipment, complete with "daisy chained" power strips. Note the neat and workmanlike installation.

There is plenty more material where this came from, but that's all for now, folks.

- Larry B.