Beautiful pic of shoddy electrical work

[got3fords]

I change fixtures without ever de-energizing the circuit. I enjoy the risk.

I used to, until the time my wife flipped the switch on the chandelier I had taken down to clean. Lit me up good. Dropped the chandelier into a million pieces.

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[NotBudule]

i like electricity.with-in reason.

I change fixtures without ever de-energizing the circuit. I enjoy the risk.
don't judge. some people jump from perfectly serviceable airplanes for fun.
I reminisce about my days at the science museum as a kid when we got to play with the van de graaf generator, and my youth on the farm with electric fences.

I recently helped someone with a flooding basement.
it was mid shin deep when i got there and climbing towards the wall outlets as we waded through the basement trying to save stuff and trying to get the two sump pumps working at removing the water.
i reached down into the sump to feel for the pump to find the float...when i felt that tingle working its way up my arm and out my leg.
I stayed on task though and got that pump back on line.
I'm not going to say I enjoyed it, but I also didn't dislike it either.

I have peed on an electric fence , that shit be real , i have wired lots of live circuits also 120 , 15 /20 amp , but if that entrance cable grounds to that panel , and your in water and you complete THAT circuit , thats gona smart ...
Or at least it does on TV ...

 

[Peragrin]

I am the Son of an electrical Conctractor and spent 15 years working with/for electricians.

Call an electrician immediately. Be prepared to pay them $2-3k to fix that issue As soon as reasonable possible. (they will have to order parts like everyone else)

That black stuff is melted plastic from the cables. the burn marks are arc fires. The romax (orange 10gauge probably going to a dryer or other 30 amp circuit) is probably a few months(maybe a year) from going up itself.

That is the front cover of your panel. the entire panel needs to get out of that space before a serious fire is started in the walls. Electrical panels should never be behind wood framing like that.


Not only is all of that not to code, it is actively dangerous. I have seen worse, and the results of worse. But that panel would go on the wall of shame we used to keep at one distributor I worked at.

 

[Peragrin]

I used to, until the time my wife flipped the switch on the chandelier I had taken down to clean. Lit me up good. Dropped the chandelier into a million pieces.

as stated in a different post son of an electrical contractor.

120 only tingle me now I might swear but I can deal.

277 that be real bad.

Also the look on my dad's face explaining to my mom their 17 year old son got zapped by 277 while changing fixtures 20' in the air was priceless.

 

[NotBudule]

as stated in a different post son of an electrical contractor.

120 only tingle me now I might swear but I can deal.

277 that be real bad.

Also the look on my dad's face explaining to my mom their 17 year old son got zapped by 277 while changing fixtures 20' in the air was priceless.

Hahah... We gots the 277 where im at now to , I did the math in my head , should only hurt a little more than twice the 120 , plus the wire is smaller , so "might not even hurt that bad "..... that is some very flawed math i did .

 

[Trigganometry]

Ahh the memories! When I was young use to tree climb. Clearing limbs one day and good sized branch got lifted from a strong breeze when it was almost parted off the tree. You guessed it. Hit the 800 amp transmission line and kabam The chainsaw and me were blown out of the tree with a big flash. Not 2 seconds later another flash and bang. That was the transformer two poles down. The whole neighborhood went black. Oops ? did I do that? I got a sunburn from that days outing…

 

[got3fords]

I am the Son of an electrical Conctractor and spent 15 years working with/for electricians.

Call an electrician immediately. Be prepared to pay them $2-3k to fix that issue As soon as reasonable possible. (they will have to order parts like everyone else)

That black stuff is melted plastic from the cables. the burn marks are arc fires. The romax (orange 10gauge probably going to a dryer or other 30 amp circuit) is probably a few months(maybe a year) from going up itself.

That is the front cover of your panel. the entire panel needs to get out of that space before a serious fire is started in the walls. Electrical panels should never be behind wood framing like that.


Not only is all of that not to code, it is actively dangerous. I have seen worse, and the results of worse. But that panel would go on the wall of shame we used to keep at one distributor I worked at.

Man, you don't sugar coat do ya! The black stuff is some kind of sticky stuff they tried to insulate it with. I think it's the same stuff they fill leaks in the duct work with. Yeah, I am already contact with an electrician. F***! Just paid over $700 to have the HVAC fixed. And $1300 to the f***ing IRS. F*** Brandon.

 

[Trigganometry]

Man, you don't sugar coat do ya! The black stuff is some kind of sticky stuff they tried to insulate it with. I think it's the same stuff they fill leaks in the duct work with. Yeah, I am already contact with an electrician. F***! Just paid over $700 to have the HVAC fixed. And $1300 to the f***ing IRS. F*** Brandon.

If it makes you feel any better my IRS bill this year is 3.9K. That’s additional after what they withheld from me already for the year. That’s a bend over moment! Yup absolutely FJB, oh! I never saw any of the stimulus checks ether…

 

[jsphlynch]

I used to, until the time my wife flipped the switch on the chandelier I had taken down to clean. Lit me up good. Dropped the chandelier into a million pieces.

I was preparing to change a fixture in the dining room recently, which meant running back and forth to the poorly-labeled panel flipping switches and seeing which lights turned off. My wife thought it would be funny to flip the light switch off to make me think I had found the right panel switch.

I did not find the joke funny in the least.

 

[KNI]

I have peed on an electric fence , that shit be real , i have wired lots of live circuits also 120 , 15 /20 amp , but if that entrance cable grounds to that panel , and your in water and you complete THAT circuit , thats gona smart ...
Or at least it does on TV ...

This reminds me a fellow farmer who accidentally dropped to flooding river. The only thing he could grab was the electric fence lines which were live. Tuff guy tho, he pulled himself from the river with the lines but did get shocked every three seconds for the whole 5 minute ordeal.

Sure it's not lethal, but 10kV (0,25J) to fingers for 100 times...

To the OP. Switch the mains off and call electrician.

 

[AzScorpion]

I have peed on an electric fence , that shit be real ,

This is all starting to make sense now. ??

 

[NotBudule]

This is all starting to make sense now. ??

Damn , might be a connection , brain got rewired somehow , and the time frame is about right...

 

[got3fords]

I was preparing to change a fixture in the dining room recently, which meant running back and forth to the poorly-labeled panel flipping switches and seeing which lights turned off. My wife thought it would be funny to flip the light switch off to make me think I had found the right panel switch.

I did not find the joke funny in the least.

Wives, they're the worst!

 

[got3fords]

If it makes you feel any better my IRS bill this year is 3.9K. That’s additional after what they withheld from me already for the year. That’s a bend over moment! Yup absolutely FJB, oh! I never saw any of the stimulus checks ether…

Damn! Yeah this is the first year in several years we had to pay in. We usually get a rebate.

 

[AzScorpion]

viva la Canada eh! tabernak

I changed accountants this year because my other one fucked up and cost me over $6k after a review of my taxes for 2020.
This year, my accountant cost me 3 times as much, but i got back $12k.

I also still have $66K in covid cash the government tossed at me, and I hear the extension to pay back some of it got extended again.

I'm thinking about that high priced Tremor...should I buy it???

What does all this have to do with electrical?

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