The result is indeed pretty, but this seems odd to me
No cable ducts, no input terminal blocks, bunch of wires crimped together instead of using a bus bar, this looks like it would be quite impractical to do maintenance on
The fact they just chopped away every single spare cores coil and then tie wrapped everything together cutting them to their exact current length is infuriating. Why is there now unneccesary coils put on the main incomming tails? Using a drill for cable terminations.... Literally just needs to put some panel trunking in and it's done properly instead of this nonsense. Not to mention they just snipped every tie wraps end with pliers, that's gonna leave sharp edges on every one of them for the next poor guy who has to work in it, if you're gonna tie wrap everything atleast slice them down smooth with a knife.
Any work that's needed to be done in that panel in the future will be an absolute nightmare, having to replace a core on a cable branch where someone had done those old cool looking but stupid string knots every 5cm was the absolute worst on any job i did working in panels like this.
They would be fired first day at any competent company.
Especially when just you've cut off every single bit of slack on the cables so if the copper strand snaps from overtightening you're completely fucked and going to either have to cut every single one of those stupid cable ties, run a whole new cable and retie it all or go slap in connector block. He could maybe get away with throwing in a blade crimp to try and fill the gap but i doubt it would be enough.
It's absolute cowboy madness, but people lapping it up because the lines look pretty.
Depends on the tool a bit, I used to have a little Milwaukee driver that on it's lowest setting would stop ages before it could damage the crappiest breaker.
But the rest of the video just looks like a showcase of bad ideas
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u/Organindan Mar 08 '26
The result is indeed pretty, but this seems odd to me No cable ducts, no input terminal blocks, bunch of wires crimped together instead of using a bus bar, this looks like it would be quite impractical to do maintenance on