Comments on: Heavy-Duty Chrome-Plated Wirenut

By: Lar Rossiter

Lar Rossiter — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:39:17 +0000

I hope that is NOT the ‘LIVE’ wire!! Burn Burn. (I have experience)

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:57:39 +0000

there are 4 wires connected under the pull disconnect. 3 black and one red. most of the time you can buy an electrical wip that has 3 wires; red, black and green. red and black are hot(together 220 volt) and green is ground. coming out of the wall is usally the 2 black wires and a bare aluminum wire for the ground. I’m guessing since we can not see where this white wire is attached or coming from, I think it is staged. The pliers are covering the view up. I am sold on the idea that this is staged, but then again there is that 2nd conduit going upwards!

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:45:36 +0000

The one true thing is a wire nut.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:44:31 +0000

I’m an air conditioning tech, that is a 220 volt disconnect box. usually there are 3 wires going in the box and 3 wires going out of the box. Once in a while I will see the 4th wire(the white one) and trace it back to the electrical box, to only see it is a neutral in which is also on the same bar as a ground. So it is not good to wire the hot leg and neutral/ground together. At the same time, we do not know where the white wire is going. Is it going through the conduit that is going up or down or back into the wall? I have seen it all!

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:35:44 +0000

We do not know what the electrical panel looks like. I have seen people use white on 220 v circuits before.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:33:49 +0000

just jump up in the air and grab the pliers before you land. It’s all about the ground.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:30:55 +0000

Actually it does say “on”! when you pull the disconnect out and turn it over, it will say off as well.

By: Ed Kroth

Ed Kroth — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:15:05 +0000

It is difficult to tell what is going on here, but assuming this is a single phase nominal 120/240 volt system, I’d guess the vise grips are connecting the grounded (in this case the nuetral) conductor. The oghter possibility is that this is a three phase system and the conductor with the white insullation is being used as a hot. This may or may not be a code violation depending on if it a grounded conductor or not. In any case this is a violation of the NEC Section 110.3 as well as many others. By the way there is a difference between grounded (needs to be identified with white or gray markings) and grounding (needs to be bare or have green markings) conductors. There is also a difference in what the purpose of these two types of conductors are intended to do.

By: CWL77

CWL77 — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:23:38 +0000

That looks like a NEUTRAL CONNECTION . . . Hopefully that isn’t carrying a large load, as a fire could develop if that NEUTRAL gets dropped or disconnected, as all 120 volt equipment will be back-fed across the dropped NEUTRAL CONNECTION thus receiving 240 VOLTS ! ! !

Pffft! Up in smoke!

Who ever tries to take (or steal) those vise-grips will ultimately get a surprise of sparks & a painful shock! That will end up being the last pair of pliers that ends up stolen, that’s for sure ! ! !

L.M.A.O!!!

By: Bekbob

Bekbob — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:39 +0000

The last pair of pliers you’ll ever (try to) steal.