goldstar
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- New Jersey
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- Electrical Contractor
Someone posted this on the Facebook Electric Wall of Shame and I thought it was both hilarious and creative at the same time. 
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
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- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
The only problem I see is the miscellaneous stuff stored on and under the panel.
Oh, and the door jamb being in the working space.
Oh, and the door jamb being in the working space.
The only problem I see is the miscellaneous stuff stored on and under the panel.
Oh, and the door jamb being in the working space.
Based on the sign posted on the door, I bet that’s a recycling bin below the panel.
acin
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- pacific grove california
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- general building contractor est.1984 . C 10 elec. lic.as of 8 / 7/ 2020
Looks like a metal door
macmikeman
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- Planet macmikeman
So much for the fire rating on the door.....
jmellc
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- Durham, NC
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- Facility Maintenance Tech. Licensed Electrician
Someone did the best he could with the situation. Pretty good job.
jmellc
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- Durham, NC
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- Facility Maintenance Tech. Licensed Electrician
Either lose the fire rating or bust a meter.
That foam I would almost be willing bet would burn like crazy, although I have seen a few pre hung metal doors with a 20 min fire rating, must have taken some time to cut them out.
ggunn
PE (Electrical), NABCEP certified
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- Austin, TX, USA
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- Consulting Electrical Engineer - Photovoltaic Systems
Why would he not have flipped the door so that it opened the other way?
petersonra
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- Northern illinois
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- Semi-retired engineer
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- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
Yes, a very shallow closet. And I still see a severe working space issue.
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petersonra
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- Northern illinois
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- Semi-retired engineer
someone will need to remove the door and whatever else impedes the working space. not an electrical problem.
readydave8
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- Clarkesville, Georgia
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- electrician
It's designed that way to allow meters to be read even if door is closed?
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- Placerville, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Retired PV System Designer
The holes are bigger than would be needed for that.
It looks like the problem is that closet is so shallow that the meters project through the plane of the door.
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- Placerville, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Retired PV System Designer
But it will still be the electrical inspection that fails.
Fred B
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- Upstate, NY
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- Electrician
It looks like the door has some sort of outer covering extending door depth that would block visibility of the meter with door closed anyway. Definitely a inventive way to have an closed electrical room. It does goes to show that it doesn't matter how little space is in an electrical room, someone is going to store stuff in the dedicated space.
The one side of door jam from the camera angle does seem to protrude into the dedicated working space of the enclosure.
The one side of door jam from the camera angle does seem to protrude into the dedicated working space of the enclosure.
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- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
Technically, there is no prohibition in the code against storing thinks in the dedicated space (above and below the equipment), where some but not all of the miscellany in the photo is located, just in the working space.
The dedicated space prohibits permanent installation of foreign (non-electrical) equipment.
readydave8
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- Clarkesville, Georgia
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- electrician
Oops forgot to use sarcasm font
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
Where is it? I could use it on occasion?
rambojoe
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- phoenix az
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- Wireman
Looks like both inspectors and poco cleared it to me... It was probably framed in afterwards. Had to be afterwards like someone said because the linesguys would gripe about the pulling section screws blocked by the jamb.But it will still be the electrical inspection that fails.
Although, no green tag... A few mains have some sort of sticker above it.
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