Thanks so much for the video! This is exactly what I was looking for. I just mounted one of these boxes to the outside of my house and wanted to make sure I was on the right track. Hope all is well, thanks again man!
I'm a Licensed Journeyman Electrician with over 52 years in the Trade specializing in Residential & Commercial Electrical Wiring & Maintenance. I have never used Aluminum Wiring for anything other than direct buried feeders underground a few times. I prefer using Copper Conductors for every thing . As a Retired Federal DOD Firefighter I have seen too many Structure Fires caused by Aluminum Conductors overheating !
I was wondering about that. He didn't how long the wire was either. I hate guess work. I'm going to use copper. I used to work in Florida along the beach fronts and the aluminum did not hold up well at all.
@@MISSINGYEARS I did watch your video but I'm not an electrician. The setup I just bought is identical to what's in this video. I'd hate to tell you something wrong and have the whole thing go up in flames. I'm just going to pay the money to have it done correctly and move on with the build. There will be plenty of other things to save a dollar on. The main electrical feed is not one of them. Besides, code for me would be different than code for you. Sorry, I would help if I knew how.
This is exactly what I'm looking for....I think. I want to mount this panel to my existing home. I want to use the existing weather head and support pipe. I want to install this panel, because I'd like to also bring wiring to my adjacent garage for basic outlets and lighting. I believe this will work.
I have the same panel I want to add an outlet outside but the place where the green screw goes does not have a hole on the back of the panel so the bars are already bonded??to neutral and ground above or they still need the green screw thanks
I believe, like John below said, the service wire that runs between the panel indoor and the meter main outside will have ground conductors inside. So you run the indoor grounds back outside to the meter main. Then I think you would want the main grounding electrode conductor that runs to the ground rods to come out of the meter main, rather than out of the indoor panel.
That's actually a better and cheaper way to do your electrical you do not have to go out and buy a meter maid panel and buy a breaker box then you have to run one wire up to the top of the house and you don't have to run the bottom or air into the breaker box inside the house for this one you only have to run one wire and you're done feed your main lines in and you got power
I'm about to use one of these boxes and was thinking about this earlier today too, but I think I maybe had a realization just a little bit ago... There is no green bonding screw because this is directly below the meter. Its the closest point physically possible to the meter, so this is always where the neutral and ground should be bonded. So there is no green screw giving you the option to bond or not -- the neutral bars, neutral lugs, ground lugs, and box chassis are all already bonded together. Right?? Makes sense to me anyway, and looking at my box, I do believe that's how its set up. So then when I run power back inside my house to the indoor panel, I'm going to throw that green screw far farrr away, not to be used, add separate ground bars into the case, and keep the ground wires all separate from the neutrals. I believe my main grounding wire to the ground rods will also come out of this meter main box outside, and the indoor panel will just have grounds come over to it through the service wire.
Can you please share me the link to buy the mobile home feeder cable that you used in your video from the meter box to the main breaker box that is located in the manufactured home. Also share the link to buy the cable that you used from the meter box hub to the cable coming out of the weather head. Please and Thank you.
There’s no ground that comes in from the transformer side. Neutral is grounded at that point so there’s no need to add another one, you bring a ground to ur main panel tho
