describe this one

[Bruce A. King]

Lets see who can first describe this IR picture in detail of a main panel

[Michael Roberson]

You got your Camera!


That's a lot of Arc faults.

[Bruce A. King]

yep, had it a few weeks, found some leaks that would not likely have been noticed too.

right, 13 arc faults in new construction

In a few years we will be seeing lots of mods inside these panels as the arc faults fail and harry homeowner moves the circuits around to get some juice flowing.

[Dale Duffy]

Hi Bruce, what model-type Cam took this photo?

I wouldn't be concerned about the 115 degrees by any means, but their requiring all branch circuits to be arc fault protected in your area?

[Bruce A. King]

A fluke TiR, sometimes I forget to focus it but it looks pretty good huh.

Arc faults.....I work in 2 states over 6 counties, over 15 cities/towns so keeping up with which code and revisions/interpretations is not going to happen. I think some builders require their subs to keep up with the latest code regardless of what the AHJ is using. The reason I say this is that I see such a variety of things in the same county on houses built during the same time frame. The AHJ for example will hit a builder very hard on a multi-family light frame project but barely look at a custom $700k 5,000 sf house.