This was in a guesthouse bathroom, there was a showerhead pointed right at it.
This is a 20 amp circuit breaker, not only is it unprotected, when it failed someone bypassed it instead of replacing it with something correct. If you took a shower in the morning and water splashed on these open contacts you wouldn’t need coffee to get your heart started.
Ignoring all the obvious bad decisions, what were they trying to accomplish? Even if that was wired correctly in a breaker panel enclosure I can’t figure out why it would be placed in a location that had a shower head pointed at it.
Honestly I thought about it and I’m not sure what the intention was. It could have been mounted on the other side of the wall (outside the bathroom) just as easily.
I’ll have to dig it up but I have a photo of the old electric meter from the same place. It was buzzing quite loudly, then it melted. It would have been marginal when installed and was connected to only lights and ceiling fans, then they did a reno and added aircon and water heaters.
The meter melted? Jesus, that’s a unique place isn’t it haha
Found 'em
Or stopped for that matter.
A fuckin jbox and outlet and plate will sum to about $15. Breakers cost more than that.
I’m pretty sure there is an exception to that rule when it comes to electricity.
The wood bullet into the tile grout was a nice touch I thought.
Hey, it’s supported!
…kinda
Fr tho this is some incredible jimbo work
It doesn’t really even need an exception. Working means disconnecting when more than 20 A are drawn, and this doesn’t do that. The rule works just fine, and counterexamples always boil down to someone misunderstanding the design goals and using a bad definition of works.
Yeah, I’d argue that even taken more broadly any shower that kills the occupants cannot be said to “work” by any reasonable definition.
Obviously, we can all think of one very notable and very unreasonable definition, but I doubt that was the intention here.
I’d argue this is not an exception, just a misunderstanding of what “works” means. Clearly the “protecting wires in case of overload” function is not working…
Welcome to brazil!
Shockwire!
“We call it that cause if you take a shower and you touch it, ya dead!”
“Yes, that is accurate.”
