Poll: Testing rough installs

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Poll: Testing rough installs

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When i started out, we always megged all rough wiring, then came the production guys, with just throw it in, and hope for the best, and the trade has been, on a down hill slide ever since their entry, not craftsman any more, but production wiring.
 
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When i started out, we always megged all rough wiring, then came the production guys, with just throw it in, and hope for the best, and the trade has been, on a down hill slide ever since their entry, not craftsman any more, but production wiring.
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DITTO!

They get tested when the power is applied.
 
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If you click on the # next to the bar (vote totals), you can see who voted and how...I just "discovered" this.
 
I voted no, because I plug test everything once its energized. If everything is done properly and nail plated etc. there should be no problems. And in all honesty I have never had any issues with cut wires or anything of the like. Ok that is not entirely true, the tile guys cut the feed to a heated floor, but no one wants to pay to have it fixed, imagine that. But that was load side of the controller not rough installation.
 
I make sure that there is no continuity between the grounding and the line conductors before I power up. I also check between the Grounding and Grounded (neutral) SE conductors with the bond disconnected. Nothing like having a breaker that won't close while the owner is watching you power up his "new" home. If I'm installing heated flooring, I get the GC or tile man to witness that the circuit is OK before the finished flooring is installed. That way when the tile men nick a wire and the GFI won't close, they can't point their finger at me.
steve
 
6-12 about now???

6-12 about now???

So, anyone to vocalize on why you do (While still in rough, not at finish, which I think we all do?), for those who do....
And would this be by applying a breaker and wiigy at each outlet, and a lamp in each can?

SO I guess I should add my own vote for NO.....
 
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Strip all conductors back a bit, seperate H/N/G's...land all the G's, grab a continuity tester....grab all the N's (and a blue nut) twist, test that whole group to G, land them, grab all the H's (blue nut), test to N and then to G.

If at ANY time, you read from H - N/G or N - G, start tracing ~ Don't forget, I pigtail everything.

I also run my ckt's into the panel odd on left, even on right (no criss-crossing in panel)...you can test 1/2 a side at a time.
 
You want to test both rough, and finish, testing rough, makes life a lot easer if there is a fault, or error in the wiring. Take a look at 424.45 for heating cables, notice they say, "before cables are covrered, or concealed", a common sense test before covering, if you rough in, and then cover up without testing, then the repair requires some demo, contractors doing production wiring, feel the cost of an opening, for repairs, is less then, the loss of testing time, again not craft work, but production wiring, that does not require an electrician, they usually hire off the street, to do this work, with little or no trainning.
 
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