This was insane, I cannot believe they thought their work was acceptable...
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kinda like these vid where you talk about others mess they do
Those “electricians” should be fired. Lazy amateurs…
I am by no means an electrician. However, I do have a slightly advanced knowledge on how to do electrical work correctly, and safely. What this "electrician" did was not by any means safe, professional, or adequate. I felt like I was watching a Billy Mays commercial with you showing "but wait, there's more!" That ground, well lack thereof really bothers me and I know NEC code on grounding techniques. Also I know with heavy voltage use equipment like HVAC systems, some require their own ground due to their energy consumption and safety reasons. No way I'd want this to short and there to be a break or plastic junction in the conduit going to the panel. Or to them short another piece of equipment out. I really commend your going above and beyond to remedy these deficiencies and hopefully they can get a real electrician out to go over everything.
I have been an electrician for years and I would definitely take photos and report these guys to the state licensing board … the bonding (EGC) termination and LB is not weather tight and all the other violations too!
My question why would you have shut off power to the whole restaurant? That makes no sense ! Run your wire then make sure breaker is off then hook up. Not hard and im not an elecrictrian . I understand your frustration . Awesome job look really nice.
None of that crap is up to California electrical code so I'm pretty sure the person they hired to do the electrical work was not actually an electrician Service area Ottawa??
It amazes me how calm you are, how you apologise for being mad. I just feel as a Brit, here in Blighty we would be in full on Anglo Saxon swear mode, I know I would have been. You lot just say 'gosh'!
Yeah thats scab work right there. Guys that arent held too standards and have no pride in their work. No wonder you are a busy man. You work amongst minions of idgaf's apparently. This sort of lackluster work used too be few and far between however times have changed. Service area Orleans??
Given the era, a lot of your videos talk about how you solve the problem and sometime later come back to fix the problem. Are you sure this isn't the case with the electrical contractor doing the same thing here?
NEC 250.134 Wiring Methods Grounding
All electrical equipment, metal boxes, cover plates, and plaster rings shall be grounded. All switches, including dimmer switches, shall be grounded.
Min. Wire Ampacity (100 ft away) = 125A × 1.2 = 150 Amps
That means that we need a wire with at least 150 ampacity to deliver 100 amp service, 100 feet away. 1/0 AWG wire has 150 ampacity. That means that 1/0 AWG wire is the perfect size wire for 100 amp service 100 feet away.
I get running larger wires if the previous ones overheated, but not grounding a system like that is asking for trouble.
Where can we hear the uncensored version of your rant on the electrician? 🤣 Seriously though, there's no excuse for such piss poor electrical work. Its appalling that someone would leave a job like that. Are you in Kanata ?
Fucking sparky Service area Kanata??
As always excellent video Chris…you have the best training videos on YouTube! Service area Barrhaven??
It's not incompetence it's laziness. He knows how to do it right…but he's lazy and he doesn't care. My main concern is…IS IT SAFE?
End of the video
How cold does it get there in Coachella, Cali? That looked like a lot of heat BTUs for a single restaurant RTU. Looked like heat for a South Dakota unit…
Definitely not a legal ground, i believe its supposed to go all the way to earth ground bus bar in the panel, insane this hackery.
Probably hired somones druncle and offered them a few 12 packs to do the electrical. Your 15 year old son could do a better job.
Why is it always "Hurry up and Wait" with electricians? It's not as though I envy their job because it seems to be a monotonous plus tedious and unfulfilled trade to me but FFS, instill some pride in your trade, shoddy electricians… you're getting scale…
City inspector might like to know about that as well. 🤦♂🤷♂
Actually it's better to have fuses as fuses act faster than the breakers, also it's a pain to come running up and down for that.
Also crimp terminal lugs so that the stranded wire doesn't fray out and cause hotspots to occur.
Lastly that's the right sized wire, you always have an overhead especially in long runs looks like a 0 gauge not sure I'm just a novice electrician Are you in Barrhaven ?
great video glad to see someone who cares Are you in Orleans ?
Lmao if only y’all knew the amount of half-assery that happens on those Home Depot RTU’s
You're not dumbfounded; the client is the one who found this electrician! rimshot
I love your work ethic.
I'm a air conditioning technician the way I see it if I can wire up a controller with 50 connection points and relays contactors capacitors soft starer then why would I get someone who knows less about electricity than me not only that they take short cuts not all of them but there is a few
maybe its time to get a electrician on your team so you can run your own cables when needed (im sure there is a lot of work for them , at all of the places your look after)
apprentice electrician , and i know better…..
but even i see a lot of stuff like that …
but even before i started i knew better to make sure cables did not rub out
I'd love to add sparky to my office ….but there's nooooooooo way no time I'd like to take care of it all myself .like your video description reads …..never apologize for caring about better workmanship
Even in good times people don’t want to do the job right I’ve worked with allot of sub contractors there’s only a few that actually care what there work looks like
It sucks so hard when you recommend hiring a specialized trade to do the work, and that company does a worse job than you could have done yourself. Always seems to happen when you try to do the right thing.
Considering the pathetic electrical job, I think your reaction was actually calm and reserved. Stayin' cool on a hot roof.
Last I knew you must run a ground to the supply panel and it can only be de-rated by one wire size of the feed. SO best case scenario is feeders are #3 and the ground #4 all the way to the panel. I can be wrong and someone will tell me i am sure.
Excellent video!! Really good stuff!😁😎
Buy the fieldpiece sc680… has phase rotation built in
I’m a apprentice electrician, I’m not the best electrician and probably never will be, looks like a 5 year old did that work😂 Are you in Nepean ?
I hope you shamed their company and hope the person who did that job sees this
Welcome to California I see this kind of shit everywhere I go it is a total joke tradesmen have gone down the drains. You were better off doing it yourself. And I’m sure it wasn’t the cheapest price just a quality of work is junk. Look on the bright side it’s job security.
What’s up Chris? How many people do you use to set one of those big Lennox units in between those fans and condensers? For a new install.
We knew that electrician was a going to be great when they left the LB cover off. No effort from that dummy.
I love your videos keep them coming!!! 😁
Did your 15 year old agree with your comment on the install looking like a 15 year old installed it?
I was working on that exact model and had the vfd explode on me. There was multiple rubouts from the vfd to the IFM. It shot shit across the roof. Never found a short to ground and powered the breaker back on. As soon as the blower spinned up it went. Now I always check for rubouts even if I don't have a short to ground on the meter
Unbelievable! I see stuff exactly like this All The Time! And a lot of HVAC guys out there are just as worthless. Code for that vertical conduit should also be a minimum of 30” above the roof.
Leg 1 was pulling 69.69 amps.
NICE!