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benaround

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110.3(B) was used to fail inspection of a 3 piece SES. The covers on the

equipment state,1 of 3,2 of 3, and 3 of 3, Well the exact same equipment

is being installed in 7 buildings and the guys who installed them messed up

one cover on all 7 SES's,( they are all the same thing except for the #'s )

So to "fix" their mistake they used a marker to make it sequential agian,

bear in mind these are not stamped plates,just decals written on at the

factory. The Inspector said "new decals from the manafacturer before it

gets singed off".

I thought 110.3(B) was kind of weak to fail 7 services, mostly because

after a year goes by the decals will be faded out.

Your comments and opinions requested.
 
Does the listing of the equipment require the covers to be installed with sequential labeling or any labeling for that matter? If the labels are not required after the installation maybe they could simply be removed. 110.3(B) sounds like a rather weak violation unless the labels are required by the manufacturer.
 
Get your P-Touch (or similar) label maker and make some new "factory labels". Time invested, 5 minutes... problem solved.

(consequently, who ticked off your inspector? This is just goofy. If the section covers are all the same, who cares?).
 
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Labels, Labels, Labels.......... Anyone ever get tagged for the sticker on a meter can that says do not paint but the painter painted it before he read it ????? Well I have many times.I hate labels !!!!!!!
 
allenwayne said:
Labels, Labels, Labels.......... Anyone ever get tagged for the sticker on a meter can that says do not paint but the painter painted it before he read it ????? Well I have many times.I hate labels !!!!!!!
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Yep and after fixing about 6 i gave up.Its even in spanish.My cure is tell inspector to just cite it and i let the GC pay reinspect.Let him teach the wet backs.Actually i not sure it's even legal to paint the equipment.
 
I do the same after scraping the paint off that label.Let the inspector tag the job and back charge the painters for the tag and time to remove the paint.

They really get irate when I hit them for $295 to replace a meter base set of jaws that they spray painted.I could do that job 20 times a day and not break a sweat.
 
110.3(b) says "Listed or labeled equipment shall be installed and used in accordance with any instructions included in the listing or labeling."

1. Are there any instructions included in the listing or labeling? (I assume listing means UL?)
2.Does 1 of 3, constitute an instruction? If so does it even matter as long as it is used in accordance with the intructions?
3. What are the odds that they would only get 1 wrong on all 7 and would you hire this installer?
(this could spark some interesting conversation) :D
 
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