Low voltage inside sub panel??
This is a subpanel with a relay installed inside it. It is for an irrigation pump. 24 vac on small “bellwire” on the relay.
Is this legal? Besides the lack of wire protection as they enter the panel, can such a relay be installed inside the service panel? Location is north of Dallas ,Texas.
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Edited 5/17/2008 10:22 pm ET by PatchogPhil
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no clue about TX but there'd be no getting away with any of theat here...
then again a guess says that most of that work wasn't inspected....
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Yeah there have been some "additions" done to that panerl since any inspection! I wouldn't think it was OK no matter where, but I had to ask.
BTW, I don't live in TX (I'm on Long Island, NY). I saw this pic on an irrigation forum.....
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
WTB they wouldn't allow it on LI either...
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Is it a sub-panel? I'm not so sure. We need to see more. In large commercial work, relay cabinets with low voltage over line are common. What is the full purpose of the cobinet/panel?
I don't have any other details nor pics. Description in the forum said it was the electric panel. And that in the upper left is a relay for 24 vac irrigation control to well pump controls.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
I can't pick out anything in that pic that's legal anywhere. The low voltage is the biggest. That's an NEC thing.
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In some cases there is a "logical" reason for somethign something like that. Even if it is not completely to code.But not in this case. The power does not even come from that panel, at leas not directly.Best I can tell is that the relay is operaing a switch leg coming from the pump. And it looks like the control wire might be #22, or 24. Kind of small. And they have #18 that is unused (the yellow/green)..
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"There's a handy junction box." I'm sure that was the mentality.
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Bill,
I noticed that too.... doesn't seem to control any 120v or 240v power directly INSIDE this panel.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?