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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Really Bad Wiring Jobs


"QUANTUM SHOT" #142


It's not so funny, if you're the one to untangle it

We'll start with a few classic photos that show the ultimate mess (with or without a poor sysadmin to blame) -





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Note says "Do not touch any of the wires!" -





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Some serious wiring nightmares in India and Thailand -





The mother of all messes:



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"Live 220v three phase supply for 115kv substation":



sent by Tony Pearson

"Some wiring from an MD-80":


sent by Paal Erik Falang

...but it's nowhere as complicated as the wiring of the Cray 1 Supercomputer! -


(image credit: Danny Silverman)



(image credit: Paul Botto

A good wiring job:
Before


After


Share with us your own wiring nightmares, send the pics!

Image sources: IPAdventures, Cooler, Karaul, OmWo.com

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COMMENTS:

6 Comments:

Blogger wanchu62 said...

Aren't these massive wiring bad for your health?

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Blogger John said...

I have worked at many radio stations over the years. Some of these pictures are TAME compared to the nest of wiring I've seen. One engineer even said that it was easier to run a new wire than to trace the one that needed replacing.

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Hey John, take the picture of your wiring nightmares and send them over to us!

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Anonymous KOLIK said...

ужас! кошмар электрика...

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Cray is NOT a bad job. Part of the PM on a Cray, and any other Supercomputer that I have worked on has been to measure the impedance of the wire and trim until it is within spec. The wires have to look like this because it would be insane to lace them have to unlace them all trim them and relace them all.

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Blogger Mitchell Smith said...

The MD-80 is actually not a bad job, neither is the cray 1 (if that is what those bins of what looks to be 24 gauge wire is for). In both cases, it's just a lot of wire, at least it's not being stretched and thrown around in a mess. It's all orderly and bundled

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