I'm all for using MC, but that is a mess. It's not much work to make it neat, sometimes it's even easier to make it neat. Often I think that people install it messy like that because they truly don't know any better due to complete lack of experience.
Here , MC is either in wall or not more than 6' whips to luminaires.
Any other exposed work would have to be emt or ridged piping
depending on Classification of area.
DERAIL! ok i have a 5500 watt electric water heater to connect. it has a #12 wire to connect to. what size wire can i feed it with? the book that came with it must have been thrown in the trash
Most liberals don't work. When they do, I am sure it's in a lazy way hoping someone else will clean it up for them. They will surely blame someone else.
I've seen it though! My company subbed out an assisted living facility to a group of guys we'd heard great things about... it wasn't until the job was 95% complete that we noticed that something was up. Apparently, they were unfamiliar with "piping". The main electrical room had 3 stacked 12" trays of mc cable leading up to it. Neutrals had been shared with same-phase circuits, as well as between different panels, and there were sections of the building where all the splices were counterclockwise.
Although if you said it was the Re-Caust/Lime Kiln area of a pulpmill and instrumentation cable ; instead of electrical panels ;it looks about right ! Nobody would want to spend 10 seconds longer in running cable !.
what a rat nest!!! they use what looks like EMT to support the MC
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