Great work brother! You killed it here. I love being an electrician and doing 200A upgrades too but we do them differently here in NJ. It still cracks me up that the distribution panels are on the outside of the house. One bit of advice is to stand facing away from the panel when you energize the main breaker and the branch circuit circuit breakers because you never know when an arc might occur and that shit would fck you up good.
All respects to electrician and my dad he’s an electrician but I wanted to say it takes balls to cut live wire while it’s on and that’s what my dad does respects👌🏾👍🏽
Do you have a flush panel ag your house? Semi flush is the way to go. That will be a fun job when someone decides to upgrade the wires that go thru two boxes. Or yes i know you can just run conduit on the exterior. Be safe out there broskie
Great work! In this case if Edison didn’t come on time, can you hook up yourself and they later make their own splice? Same thing for disconnecting? Thanks
A great video! I've been asking this all over the web. HELP! I'm replacing an old Federal Pacific 100-amp panel with a 200-amp Square D Hameline panel, so I will need to upgrade the service entrance cable and want to use 2/0 THHN copper. The outdoor meter can/box is mounted low, (30" off the ground at bottom edge of can) outside, so if I use the bottom rear 2-inch knockout of the meter can, it will put the hole through the wall below the bottom edge of the new breaker panel by about 8 inches, so I will have to make a vertical 90 upwards turn from hole in wall to bottom knockout of the new panel. I cannot find a 2" close 90 PVC electrical fitting so I'm guessing they don't make one. My question is: how do I make that vertical 90 turn upwards? It will eventually be covered in drywall. Do I need to have the inside copper leads in conduit at all? If I use switch to 4/0 aluminum, do I need conduit inside the wall cavity? thanks in advance!.
Where are you located. I’m An electrician of 15 years mostly commercial I do a lot of residential but never done a a panel upgrade. I’m f you I. The bay I’ll cut you in. If you teach me 🙂
Do you work in California if so what county? I had three electricians say they'll take the job to upgrade, I excepted their offers and it's been a year when I started taking offers and they haven't communicated on when they'll be here. Any advice?
Hi I’m looking to setup a 200 amp panel 100 ft away (above ground, through the attic) I’m wondering which phase sub panel I need for that? Running 4-5 20 amp 110v lines and 2x 20-30 amp 220v lines. Also I’m wondering if this cable will be the correct cable for me to run box to box?: 4/0-4/0-4/0-4/0 Appaloosa Quadruplex Overhead Aluminum Conductor
Permit is usually instant online, and post-work inspection takes 1-2 weeks. Getting power company out to fix connections takes >1 month. Most electricians do the main line detachment and reattachment themselves
I often see videos of all of the house wires passing through one large knockout in the back of the panel. I installed a panel where the breakers are in a bottom section rather than side-by-side, and I separated the cables into different knockouts. Do you get any feedback from inspectors on grouping all of the wires together?
What’s up with that grounding? Looks awful! Should have buried it. And you couldn’t use a piece of PT behind panel? No guide wire for mast. Even if it’s not required come on man! And the bl/red wires going to a single 60 & single 50 amp breaker what’s up with that? Too much copper showing what did you strip it with? Sheetrock saw?
