Electrician: "Whoever did this job, did it wrong" | Industrial Unit Electrics
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You answered your own question, don't glue in case of alterations 👍
after years of having know it all sparks work on our projects, its very nice to see someone competantly tackle a variety of work with care and consideration.
You do nice work Delroy and very good explanations/directions to your apprentice, well I hope he's your apprentice because he has a good teacher to start him on his profession.
That workshop looks like it's a trip hazard nightmare trying to move your ladder around that place with all those shelves and boxes everywhere!
Think the smaller knockout is for a strain relief if you're planning to use low voltage dimming. At least in Canada anyways.
its all cool and the gang del 👍
I wouldn’t bother glueing conduit.
On another note surely plastic conduit fastened to the ceiling is no use in a fire.
Isn’t that why we now use steel cable ties ? That conduit is over a fire exit.
The electrical rule book is forever being tested 👍
As an ex facilities/maintenance engineer I’ve seen all sorts of stuff, I’ve seen stuff done wrong that has actually been safer than things done right !!!
i thought he said he used white metal saddles on the ceiling as suggested by his wholesaler. He would normally use white plastic. Metal saddles would be fine to hang the cables if the plastic conduit were to melt in the event of a fire.
The conduit ends are called adapters (male and female).
It’s regulation now to use metal saddles on plastic conduit.
I have this debate all the time with sparks about key switches. From my understanding the key switch is there to simulate a power failure so it should kill the circuit completely not just the emergency feed
But then you're causing a hazard to anyone in the facility?
The plastic conduit and fitting will have a high melting point thus meating the non collapse regs and also non toxic when heated.
As for having the switch cable running from the first light throught to the second light this would be acceptable unless the lights were switched independently.
Which is going into a plastic red rawl plug... 😂 Don't see what's the point in putting metal ones up
I stopped gluing conduit as when it heats up it needs room to expand otherwise you get the snake effect on the wall.
I'd not glue plastic conduit that's inside a building, no need and makes it harder to make alterations. Running black plastic conduit outside I use solvent cement to both glue and seal it against water ingress (drain hole at each box etc it connects to).
Why you fitted all the arrows on that emg bulkhead?
bush coupler. Bush one end, coupler the other, clever huh!
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Your socket & bush is called female or male adapter
I always called them couplers
Makes sense to glue conduit outside to help make it water tight. But really can't see any benefit from doing it inside ?
Yes I agree only glue if outside is a must as the conduit these days seems not to fit tight
Had a job recently where the newly installed outside lights around a communal building was tripping and most of the lights where full of water as they took the conduit in top and didn't glue it
@Walktheline1991 if it's fitted properly, shouldn't be an issue, really. Am I 'half sharp'? No one likes a keyboard warrior. Pipe down
Cooshtie.
Seriously why glue it ? It’s not a plumbing pipe with potential to leak under any form of back pressure. Just makes things harder like here when you need to alter it. Using pipe adhesive achieves nothing, if your worried about it all coming off then that wiring system is the wrong type for its purpose
Whats with all sparkies and gloves these days.... don't wanna get your little hands dirty hmm 😞
Get less of a belt
Yes and it's safer also