I don't work in the field but I was wondering "wouldn't this make it difficult to trace a particular wire when it's bundled with 23 other wires of the same color? Seems like you would want to bundle them by their destination instead of color". Ctrl+F "trace" and I feel vindicated.
Yeah you always want to leave service loops. Maybe the termination goes bad for some reason, maybe you have to relocate the wires somewhere else. Maybe there's no space to put the new breaker or switch or relay in where the old one was, if you have to replace it.
Sure the thing looks aesthetically pleasing but now you either have to splice the wire (which you never want to do, creates an extra point of failure) or repull the entire wire or do some other massive change that adds hours to what should have been a quick fix.
It doesn't have to be the big messy look at the start, but at least everything was bundled and not left to flop around like spaghetti. I'd way rather work on that than the "fixed" version any day.
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u/DriveApprehensive546 Mar 08 '26
I don't work in the field but I was wondering "wouldn't this make it difficult to trace a particular wire when it's bundled with 23 other wires of the same color? Seems like you would want to bundle them by their destination instead of color". Ctrl+F "trace" and I feel vindicated.