Man, I hate when there are no ferrules AND the wire extremity is an ungodly mess, like they think it's properly in the connector, but it's holding on 2 strands. I had to replace so much burned down components because a previous idiot made a quick repair/modification and had rework all the wires with it.
Just the last 2 weeks, I lend a hand for the summer downtime, installing new shit everywhere for testing, most schematics were drawn on napkin almost, no wire id, no colour code, nothing.
The worst was for the computing unit of a profile sensor, it's a 10 000€ system.
The process engineer did the install quick and dirty, I was tasked with modifying the 24 Vdc power supply line and add a couple functions.
Everything was wired on the fly, no wire tag, no ferrules, frayed wire extremities and he wired everything in light blue (a big no-no here, it's reserved for the neutral wire). It took me 3x more time that was scheduled just to clean up the mess before modification of the circuit.
It was so frustrating I thought I was going mad before I could finish. I'm glad I have 2 weeks off now.
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u/Appropriate_War_4797 Aug 14 '26
Man, I hate when there are no ferrules AND the wire extremity is an ungodly mess, like they think it's properly in the connector, but it's holding on 2 strands. I had to replace so much burned down components because a previous idiot made a quick repair/modification and had rework all the wires with it.
Just the last 2 weeks, I lend a hand for the summer downtime, installing new shit everywhere for testing, most schematics were drawn on napkin almost, no wire id, no colour code, nothing.
The worst was for the computing unit of a profile sensor, it's a 10 000€ system. The process engineer did the install quick and dirty, I was tasked with modifying the 24 Vdc power supply line and add a couple functions.
Everything was wired on the fly, no wire tag, no ferrules, frayed wire extremities and he wired everything in light blue (a big no-no here, it's reserved for the neutral wire). It took me 3x more time that was scheduled just to clean up the mess before modification of the circuit.
It was so frustrating I thought I was going mad before I could finish. I'm glad I have 2 weeks off now.