Saturn_Europa
Senior Member
- Location
- Fishing Industry
- Occupation
- Electrician Limited License NC, QMED Electrician
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good wire tracer/ toner?
The reason I ask is that the general contractor that built my plant also acted as the electrical contractor. They hired 40 "electricians" from Labor Ready and set them loose. I've found all kinds of crazy stuff. Conductors terminated in a 480 v panel boards without the insulation strip backed (they just over torqued the lugs to until they damaged the insulation and hit copper)
The most recent incident was a short circuit that took out the controls to a section of my plant. The control wire was ran in a conduit with 480 v single phase, 2 pole for a lighting circuit. During install they cut the orange conductor a little too short so they spliced in 6 inches of a yellow wire. The splice went bad and it melted all the wires in the conduit together. There were about 10 control wires all red, melted together or burned in half. I was able trace them back to a pull box with labels on one end and a junction box on the other end. It was a chore figuring out which wire was which.
It would have been a lot easier with a good wire tracer. Any suggestions?
The reason I ask is that the general contractor that built my plant also acted as the electrical contractor. They hired 40 "electricians" from Labor Ready and set them loose. I've found all kinds of crazy stuff. Conductors terminated in a 480 v panel boards without the insulation strip backed (they just over torqued the lugs to until they damaged the insulation and hit copper)
The most recent incident was a short circuit that took out the controls to a section of my plant. The control wire was ran in a conduit with 480 v single phase, 2 pole for a lighting circuit. During install they cut the orange conductor a little too short so they spliced in 6 inches of a yellow wire. The splice went bad and it melted all the wires in the conduit together. There were about 10 control wires all red, melted together or burned in half. I was able trace them back to a pull box with labels on one end and a junction box on the other end. It was a chore figuring out which wire was which.
It would have been a lot easier with a good wire tracer. Any suggestions?
