I had to sign off an electrical job today which was a brand new production line install. It included a main line panel with a 300 amp 3 phase supply, with a 24 volt control circuit. The line has 6 machines in total from a bottle unscrambler, filler, capper , sleever, labeller and case packer robot.
the quality of work was appauling.
in the main line panel the incoming supply to the switch disconnector was un-shielded at the terminals, the fuse holders where hanging off the top hat rail in places, some of the fuse holders where even snapped at the corners. The wiring to each machine was not marked up correctly, some labels didnt even correspond with ANY of the MCB'S in the panel!
even worse was the fact that some of the PLC wiring was in 3 core flex with the earth used as a live conductor and no colour coded sleeving at all to even identify what they were used for.
why do these contractors always ignore common sense and regs and get away with it! needless to say i didnt sign it off. It was me who ended up getting a rollocking for being awkward!!! i stuck my ground and in the end the contractors had to be called back in to begin fixing the issues!!!
the quality of work was appauling.
in the main line panel the incoming supply to the switch disconnector was un-shielded at the terminals, the fuse holders where hanging off the top hat rail in places, some of the fuse holders where even snapped at the corners. The wiring to each machine was not marked up correctly, some labels didnt even correspond with ANY of the MCB'S in the panel!
even worse was the fact that some of the PLC wiring was in 3 core flex with the earth used as a live conductor and no colour coded sleeving at all to even identify what they were used for.
why do these contractors always ignore common sense and regs and get away with it! needless to say i didnt sign it off. It was me who ended up getting a rollocking for being awkward!!! i stuck my ground and in the end the contractors had to be called back in to begin fixing the issues!!!