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    There is a neutral and a gound coming from this distribution panel and then going into this series of smaller panels. Does anyone know what this is. It looks like some type of timing system but I did not have a clue! Also, look at the water line in front of the panels.

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    Ryan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan Stouffer View Post
    Does anyone know what this is.

    Yes, I know what it is ... it is WIRED INCORRECTLY.

    Why they wired it incorrectly, that I do not know, but I suspect there was a neutral or ground problem and instead if finding it and correcting it they decided to run a new neutral and ground ... just a WAG.

    Of course, if that were the reason for installing it, why not just run a neutral and a ground and not cut off the other conductors???

    Which means it 'could have been' for something which was abandoned, so they cut the hot conductors off???

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    I am presuming you also wrote up the other things which are wrong in there.

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    Jerry, to me everything else looks okay with the exception of the supply plumbing running in front of the box. What other things are there?


    Thanks,

    Ryan


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    Uh, might want to look at the multiple neutrals under one screw.

    The unpowered stuff is part of a spa temperature control system and the stuff needs to be removed if not being used.


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    Ryan,

    This is all is visible in that limited photo:
    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Kriegh View Post
    Uh, might want to look at the multiple neutrals under one screw.
    Bill,

    The unpowered stuff is part of a spa temperature control system and the stuff needs to be removed if not being used.
    I would hesitate on calling that "unpowered" as it 'may be powered' from some other circuit. That cut off circuit may have just been feeding through to, say, the timer - which may be for something else, or who knows what from where, not enough information to state that it is "unpowered".

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