Spot the Violation, 03/28/08

[brantmacga]

This picture is big and blury, but the apparent violation is still visible. I apologize for the clarity but this is a photo of a photo in an advertisement for MC-AP cable. The panel type is square-D homeline. Its possible there's no violation, but there could be if you assume the same thing I did when I saw it.

 

[stickboy1375]

Maybe, if only I could see what I'm looking at... :grin:

 

[peter d]

I'll just look at the same ad in EC&M and get back to you.

 

[brantmacga]

sorry for the pic quality guys. its on page 19 of EC&M February 2008. I'm sure its in the March too. I thought you could see it even with the bluriness. It has mostly to do with where conductors are landed. It also has something to do with a feature in squareD homeline panels that are opposite to say, a siemens panel.

 

[chevyx92]

Looks like sub panels with grounds and neutrals tied together. right?

 

[brantmacga]

Looks like sub panels with grounds and neutrals tied together. right?

yep that's it. i didn't even realize at first that the neutral is on the same bar as the grounds. those two bars cannot be separated either. Additional bars must be installed directly to the can for 4-wire feeders. I said it was a possible violation because I don't know for a fact where that ground wire goes. I looked closely at the actual picture and the bonding screw is installed. But anyway, it jumped out at me as I was flipping pages earlier.