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I got a violation notice on a ground bar. (The picture I took of it came out bad, though, so here's one just like it). I slipped up and told the inspector he was crazy...Oooops It's a factory supplied component for a Cutler-Hammer 225 Amp Main Lug panel. Now, what's the matter with it?
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Hello Scott, I slipped up and told the inspector he was crazy...Oooops ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/rolleyes.gif) doesn't that come under the heading of s---happens? ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/wink.gif) The only thing I can think of is he wants a green screw or nut. Of course you could tell him that besides his being crazy, until a conductor is landed on the bar it doesn't exist. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/biggrin.gif) Roger
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What doesn't he like about it?
If this was a factor installed bar wouldn't any changes you make to it possibly void the UL listing?
I think you were being nice. I would have said more than calling him crazy.
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Some people have a hair across it, and should be told so! (politely of course...)
Raise one brow like Spock, and a calm monotone voice... "I'm sorry, but you are out of your mind"
I had a simular thing happen with a panel once, the Inspector made some wild claim about "modification" of a neutral buss. So we continued with the Inspection, while I sent a guy to the supply house to get another one. He came back, we opened the un-opened box in front of him. Then took it back, a waste of time and money......
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Scott, Was it a new, overly zealous inspector that I might be dealing with in a coastal city? I've got one that wrote a subpanel I changed up as this exactly "Continuity problem at subpanel" Thats all he wrote! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/confused.gif) I called him & he said between the neutral & ground there's a continuity problem... I measured it & it rang out just fine... I recalled him out.... We'll see if he's really crazy ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/biggrin.gif) -Randy
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The reason he wrote it up is that this mounting does not provide "direct metal contact."He also doesn't like the EMT fittings without a grounding bushing or a Meyers Hub. He says that the hole (7/8", 1-1/8", etc) is larger than the fitting, and thus does not provide "direct metal contact". I looked up "direct metal contact" in the '99 NEC for a total of 0 hits for my query. The secondary conductors from the utility transformer were not yet installed, so when I gave him a torque letter from the office that the gear had been torqued to specs, he told me I was committing FRAUD. This & more was all before I told him he was crazy. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/wink.gif) ...S He's an older fellow not by the beach, Randy.
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Some people have a hair across it, and should be told so! LMFAO!!!! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/biggrin.gif) Inspectors??? ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/mad.gif)
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I see it, its that ag, with the green writing, its partly under the attachment nut. It must be interfering with the "direct metal contact". Or was that direct mental defect?? ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/rolleyes.gif)
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He also doesn't like the EMT fittings without a grounding bushing or a Meyers Hub. I will steal a line from electricmanscott. "Poor fellow"Did you explain to him that no one gives a .... about what he likes?
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