BEWARE of The HACK!!
Sometimes an owner, manager, or homeowner will make a conscious decision to be cheap. Other times it is just incompetence or fraud on the part of the installer. But a HACK is a HACK - and their work is EVERYWHERE!
Know your trades-person. Hire ONLY those who have verifiable competencies and a history of solid project completion. The consequences can be deadly. What follows is examples of dangerous and costly installation violations. These were found in mostly commercial and residential settings. We rarely see this in industrial settings, but we do still see violations.
As it is, insulation can fail if voltage gets too high and exceeds the "breakdown voltage" allowing electrons to get excited to the point where they break out of their stable orbit, whereby current will then pass through the material and often destroy the insulator. This will lead to direct shorts and/or catastrophic failure.
There is no sense combining normal possible physics phenomena with a HACK'S creative abilities. Of course it does not help when a person is not skilled or knowledgeable in electrical theory or principles and does things like connect copper and aluminum conductors together without the proper components.
But whatever the reason, the outcome can be dangerous. Dangerous electrical installs and conditions ARE EVERYWHERE!
You will shutter at some of the hack jobs you will see in the pics below! Enjoy... and have a look for yourself!
Sometimes an owner, manager, or homeowner will make a conscious decision to be cheap. Other times it is just incompetence or fraud on the part of the installer. But a HACK is a HACK - and their work is EVERYWHERE!
Know your trades-person. Hire ONLY those who have verifiable competencies and a history of solid project completion. The consequences can be deadly. What follows is examples of dangerous and costly installation violations. These were found in mostly commercial and residential settings. We rarely see this in industrial settings, but we do still see violations.
As it is, insulation can fail if voltage gets too high and exceeds the "breakdown voltage" allowing electrons to get excited to the point where they break out of their stable orbit, whereby current will then pass through the material and often destroy the insulator. This will lead to direct shorts and/or catastrophic failure.
There is no sense combining normal possible physics phenomena with a HACK'S creative abilities. Of course it does not help when a person is not skilled or knowledgeable in electrical theory or principles and does things like connect copper and aluminum conductors together without the proper components.
But whatever the reason, the outcome can be dangerous. Dangerous electrical installs and conditions ARE EVERYWHERE!
You will shutter at some of the hack jobs you will see in the pics below! Enjoy... and have a look for yourself!