Shorted cable inside cooler/freezer panel.

[brantmacga]

Recently finished job with a pre-fab cooler/freezer set in place on a slab. The breaker for lighting is tripping.

Went to see about it last night and there is a short in the cable from the wall j-box to the first light. I don’t see any way to fix this without disassembling the panels. I took the fixtures down and it’s 14/2 UF routed in the panels. I pulled on the cable a bit and it doesn’t budge.

Anyone else run across this?

Another interesting thing I found is the ground wasn’t connected from the first cable to the next, so there is no grounding to any of the lights past the first one.

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[Eddie702]

So this is factory wiring inside the panels?

I would abandon it and run new. You may have to spray foam up the old holes and get some new aluminum skin to put over the top of the holes with silicone and aluminum pop rivets

 

[brantmacga]

Yeh factory. The lighting circuit was routed into one of the roof mounted condenser disconnects. Yeh you’re right probably have to abandon it and run surface conduit from a bell box on the wall that has the lighting circuit. I’ve got to call the supplier per customer request and discuss. It came from RSCS, and the last time they were responsible for a warranty payment to me it got ugly.


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