4/0 Service spliced down to 1/0 in panel before breaker

infinity said:
No it's not permitted to use a #1/0 conductor for 200 amps in this application. As Retired said state what you see and walk away, this is not a code inspection and likely outside of your SOP to perform one with specific violations. And as far as helping this client out there are so many violations with this installation anything other than a thorough inspection and corrections by a licensed electrician is putting your client in danger. You're not helping him if he actually tries to fix this mess himself based on your observations.
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Perfect. For the record, I only called the stuff out and told him to get a licensed professional electrician. In Florida needs a clean 4-Point form to get his insurance, so, unless he calls another inspector who doesn't know what to look for, he's stuck with me, :ROFLMAO:!

The "electrician" he's now using told him it's OK to splice like that and I just wanted to confirm my own research with those actually licensed in the field. Most times I can pull a specific paragraph reference and the conversation ends but this one isn't so cut and dry.
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They need to be compliant with 230.23(A) (Or whatever it is in the Florida electrical code). That's the code section you need to write them up for.
HiSpeed68 said:
Perfect. For the record, I only called the stuff out and told him to get a licensed professional electrician. In Florida needs a clean 4-Point form to get his insurance, so, unless he calls another inspector who doesn't know what to look for, he's stuck with me, :ROFLMAO:!

The "electrician" he's now using told him it's OK to splice like that and I just wanted to confirm my own research with those actually licensed in the field. Most times I can pull a specific paragraph reference and the conversation ends but this one isn't so cut and dry.
Thanks
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Absolutley correct! It’s only rated for 100A as well and much much more. Is there any interpretation where the splice is correct? Thanks
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Splicing the service conductors is not prohibited. More recent years NEC decided the devices used for splicing need to be rated for use on service conductors. Not sure how many of the type shown are rated for it. When the rule came out pretty much none of them were but I think many were working on getting them listed and very well may be several that are now.
 
tjdilly said:
They need to be compliant with 230.23(A) (Or whatever it is in the Florida electrical code). That's the code section you need to write them up for.
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He's a home inspector and does not need, nor should he, cite a code article. He only needs to note there are violations and should get a qualified/licensed electrician to check it.
 
Little Bill said:
He's a home inspector and does not need, nor should he, cite a code article. He only needs to note there are violations and should get a qualified/licensed electrician to check it.
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Ah, ok. I figured it would be best to say a code article to push the owner to actually doing that. If that causes the inspector to take on some liabilities, obviously don't do that.
 
HiSpeed68 said:
Perfect. For the record, I only called the stuff out and told him to get a licensed professional electrician. In Florida needs a clean 4-Point form to get his insurance, so, unless he calls another inspector who doesn't know what to look for, he's stuck with me, :ROFLMAO:!
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Yes a 4-point is just what's on the form and doesn't need to be anything more. There is no way that an insurance company should insure this without it being completely redone in a code complaint manner.
 
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