Would you consider this a proper drip loop?

[Robert Jones]

I personally would not consider this a properly installed service/drip loop(actually looks reversed). Jim and Jim? For what it's worth, the homer has an FPE service panel installed and I have called for replacement. This could be repaired at the same time.

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[RickSab]

No it is wrong. The service wire should slope down from the weather head not up.

[Jim Morrison]

That is most wrongtious and should definitely be repaired.

[Billy_Bob]

The idea of a drip loop is that rain water hitting the wire will follow along that wire to where it goes. So you first route the wire down, then back up into where it is going. Then the water will flow down and away from the opening the wire is going into.

The following picture is probably easier to understand. Here the water will flow down and away from the hole going into the house...

Then here is a drip look on an electrical service doing the same thing. The water flows away from the opening the wire goes into...

[Acorn Home]

I am not saying the loop is right, but in reality only the rain on top of the loop will end up going inside the opening, no?

[Robert Jones]

We have a lot of rain around here:)

[hausdok]

I am not saying the loop is right, but in reality only the rain on top of the loop will end up going inside the opening, no?

Any rain following those cables into that masthead would be unacceptable.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[kurt]

I am not saying the loop is right, but in reality only the rain on top of the loop will end up going inside the opening, no?

Two words; surface tension. And, water runs downhill.

It's wrong, and it's an easy fix.

[Tom Raymond]

[it's wrong, and it's an easy fix.

Yeah, you get the electrician to slip his head through the loops...then kick the ladder out from under him[:-dev3]

Tom

[Northwoodschuck]

It never ceases to amaze me what passes for okay in some peoples eyes. To have done that drip loop properly would not have taken any extra time/effort/money. [:-weepn]