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2026-01-07

2026-01-07 12:13:??

Just now jorge-padron admonished another peer for using insulated wire for pool bonding, his rationale was flawed beyond saving (something about the difference between bonding and grounding), but stemmed from a frustratingly common misunderstanding that our accubid assemblies are intended to be an accurate list of the material to be installed.

They are not. If they were intended to be accurate, there would need to be several times as many. They are a compromise between accuracy and estimator effort. It should be assumed that for common scope, at least one assembly should be acceptable as-is.

Pool bonding is required for at least a quarter of our jobs. We have no bonding assemblies with bare wire. Therefore it must be assumed that it was determined that it would be acceptable to represent bare wire bonding with insulated wire items, because otherwise it would be necessary to have double the assemblies, or to expect estimators to substitute each size of wire everywhere bare was necessary.

See heuristics#Realism vs. Instrumentalism.