Electrical tape balls?

[Frank P. Newman]

I, too, would love to know what's inside those 'balls' and would probably have to investigate as mentioned above. It is hard for me to imagine (even with a large split bolt connector), anyone being able to produce something that round without some sort of filler material. If the electrician has industrial experience he may have used some filler material of the type that is used to make hand-taped, higher voltage splices.

As to the 'safety' of the installation, it looks like there is ample capacity for any parts of the conductors involved; I would likely shoot the balls with an IR temperature gun. If not hot as compared to the rest of the panel, I would likely judge it to be A-O-K

[brian winkle]

They're probably split bolts wrapped in mastic, then taped.

[Stephen W. Stanczyk]

Originally Posted by pabernathy

Ahh......well hard to tell unless you untape the balls ( not sure I like how I said that ...lol..)

You know Paul, you might be right there. If untaped in a haphazard manner, you might come up with......

wait for it.......


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[pdickerson]

Personally, I don't see anything wrong. I like a panel with some cahones.

I am guessing that the electrician ran the larger wires for a typical size oven, and then the owner decided to install some fancy environmentally friendly low power unit. There may be a similar splice at the other end of the large wires.

[Frank P. Newman]

I agree that it is likely to have something on the other end as well. However, given that space may be very limited there I would surely try to see what that end looked like. Could be anything from 'elegant' to a real mess.