Are you prepared for this call..

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Looks like it's been there awhile. "What do you mean the equipment and wiring are not rated for outdoor use? It's worked fine for years.";)
 
Reminds me of a call I got two or three years ago.
It was with my workshop foreman to do a few simple mods to the control system of a VSD and subsequently to run it up.
The location wasn't very far away and I got a call from the customer when we were about half way.
"We're going to have to cancel the job."
"OK. Any particular reason?" I asked.
"It's raining."
"Yes........."
Well, it's out in the yard."
"Oh.......s.."

The panel, like almost everything we do, was designed on the basis that it was to be used in a reasonably clean industrial switch room. Not for outdoor use. It was a 200kW unit with expected losses in the region of 5kW and that needs a decent amount of airflow through the panel - big inlet fans at the bottom of the front door and outlet grills at the top. They are fitted with filter mats to prevent the ingress of dust. But not rain. And then there's the front panel controls - standard industrial switches, indicator lamps, operator interface unit. Plus the panel is made of mild steel albeit epoxy power coated. Just totally unsuitable for outdoor use.

We do, from time to time, make panels suitable for wet environments. But that's an entirely different ball game. And price. And this particular customer wanted cheap so didn't furnish us with/withheld some vital bits of information. It happens.....
 
I'm still trying to decide if the tree is that much of a problem as compared to all the junk it looks like you have to climb over to get to it.

I had one earlier this summer - guy bought a farm place with pretty run down buildings. Needs to run well to water cattle, doesn't care much about the condition of buildings, at least at this time. Wire in LB leaving the house to the well is pulled really tight and pinched and wants to fix that. Well after looking around a bit, the floor in the house collapsed and is reason wire is pulled tight, is nothing but a crawl space and lots of junk and maybe even some critters living in there, so who knows what else may be wrong with equipment under that collapsed floor and he thinks I'm just going to splice this pinched wire that will probably disappear into the house as soon as I cut it? Plus the water lines under that collapsed floor are likely going to leak all over the place if we do get the well to run:slaphead:
 
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