NECodeHallofShame

Power Coffee

March 15, 2016
This Hall of Shame wiring job will make electrical inspectors cringe.

The electrician who wired this beach bungalow on Florida’s Sanibel Island had his or her priorities in order – make a nice cup of coffee first before worrying about silly things like accessing the load center. Chalk it up to an electrician living on “island time” in a beautiful place where folks spend more time collecting seashells, fishing, tanning and watching Gulf Coast sunsets than reading up on National Electrical Code regulations.

Think you know your stuff with the National Electrical Code? Check out EC&M magazine's What's Wrong Here?

And if you want to see more Hall of Shame wiring jobs, EC&M's Illustrated Catastrophes will show you some truly insane electrical installations.

About the Author

Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing

Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 40 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, and as a contributing writer for EC&M magazine During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.

Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling  and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted with his wife and three sons in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 30 years. 

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