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My guess is that's the bond going to the cold water pipe using #2 solid aluminum. If you look closeley, the #6 copper is taped to the service entrance cable coming in from the ground rods.

EV, I stand corrected ... and I bet you're right.

And ... thx to Jim M ... I stand corrected about hot tub grounding. I may have confused 'practice' with 'code.' OOPS!

Wow! at the rate the electricians in that company are using the electrical tape, that shop must be losing money. Someone had a field day with the electrical tape. "Hey I have a problem over here". "Don't worry my role of black tape will fix it."

I wonder which circuit they spliced into for that transformer...

The tape is no surprise to me - 2 years ago I had a summer job with a somewhat sub standard EC and the first thing workers would do in the morning was grab 2 or 3 new rolls of tape, right after the coffee and chat.

(Work day in that company looked like this: 6.45: arrive, have a chat and coffee. 7.15: start to THINK about getting in the car. 7.30: get moving. 8.00: earliest time to arrive at the site. Look around once and have breakfast until 10.00. 10.00 - 11.00: do some work. 11.00: go for a second brakfast, seamlessly merging into a liquid lunch lasting until roughly 2 or 3pm. Then go home. (ok, that was one of the worst days, but even on the good ones they didn't get much done. Example: take down 9 pendant lights, i.e. get on the ladder, oben 3 screws, get down with the fixture and repeat. Took 2 guys 3 days to accomplish. Other example: Monday. "I don't wanna work... I still have a hangover from Saturday! Let's have a barbecue with stuff we find on site! So we built a fireplace from bricks, put up the grill of a discarded oven and fired with clean wood scraps... only the meat was store bought)

So am I correct in assuming that the top of this panel is 7' 1" or so high?

so, if you tape all your wires together they're considered supported b each other, right?:D

I have noticed that the price of the home has no bearing on the quality of the electrical work whatsoever. I have seen million dollar mansions with wiring that looked like a Romex factory exploded, and 1200 sg ft. starter homes with wiring installed with care and precision.

The worst I have ever seen is tract home wiring in California. The stuff in my neck of the woods varies greatly depending on the contractor.