MDShunk

This section of 10-3 was observed in a customer's basement. They had a brand new washing machine, but the dryer was suspiciously missing. When the customer was asked (upon seeing this section of NM cable), "Were you having any problems with your dryer?", they responded, "Yeah, we had to get rid of it. Every time we ran it, something smelled like it was burning, then it finally quit working". This 10-3 was fed from the main lugs, without overcurrent protection. They're lucky it burnt off before it burned the house down. I can't take a very good close-up picture with my junky camera, but my eye can see the tell-tale signs of mouse chew on this wire in the burned section. Mice make a very distinctive serrated pattern when they chew the cable jacket and conductor insulation.

chenley

So they probably got rid of a perfectly working dryer, ouch.

brian john

Typical installation lug not quite large enough, heck trim the strands.

Color is a bit off was messing with this in photoshop.

Marc finally got the new camera, does decent close ups.

brian john

This was noted as a discrepancy on a recent IR Scan we performed. The conductors did not have a thermal issue at the time of the IR Scan. The mounting hardware was tight, this appears to be a past issue. The electrician IMO made a LOUSY repair.

This portion of the neutral termination bar should have been removed and thrown away and the damaged portion of the neutral conductors should have been removed and then the conductors relocated to spare termination spaces in the remaining neutral termination bar.

cldstudios

thats was the Fix.........????????

brian john

1. Cut off the damaged portion of the conductors.
2. Re-terminate in existing spaces on the undamaged neutral termination bar.
3. Remove and dispose of damaged termination bar.