[RE-wrenches] Dangerous installs/installers..

[Jesse Dahl]

All,

It was confirmed that this work was done by a local "contractor" through photographs.  Very poor workmanship.  The best one of the job was the UF that was used as the PV output circuit had the black and the white paralleled as the "+" and the bare ground was used as the "-".  Unbelievable. 

Jesse

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On May 7, 2011, at 6:58 AM, <dan at foxfire-energy.com> wrote:

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> Dan Brown
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Dangerous installs/installers..
> From: Jesse Dahl <dahlsolar at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, May 07, 2011 2:45 am
> To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
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> Wrenches,
> 
>  The other day on my travels, I came across a very scary small stand-alone hunting shack install.  All the wiring is cut extension cords and some UF, the cable from the charge controller to the batteries is an extension cord with the 14s paralleled.   mice chewed wire, splices taped and laid on the ground, mis matched modules (least of the problems). not a disco or OCPD to be seen. 
> 
> Also a 500W wind generator 100 yards from the battery bank, feed with #10s and then spliced to #12s (most of it just laying on the ground.  
> 
> Now I think the owner should have some responsibility to stop work when the see things this awful, but what can/should we as an industry do about this? What do we say to people that install stuff like this? Take them to court?
> 
> A small 2500w with surge of 5000w inverter was used here with 6 paralleled 12V deep cycle batteries. Powering a few lights and a vacuum at first, a well pump was added later. I could see the lights and vacuum, but a pump?  How do you go about wiring the output of an inverter like this?  From a receptacle on the inverter to what? This guy cut an extension cord off and splice it to some NM and ran it inside to the loads. No breaker, I just can't get over the fact this guy sleeps at night...
> 
> 
> You should see the photos of this mess...
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> 
> Thank you for your thoughts,
> 
> 
> 
> Jesse
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