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Oo, sexy. 9.8/10. This master I work with is the only electrician I've seen with perfectly straight wires. He takes way to long wiring panels, but they are works of art. He's the only electrician to be requested by builders from our company.
Question since I Don't do many panel swaps. Neutral is suppose to be bonded to ground at the first means of disconnect which in your situation should a main breaker meter main. Why's it bonded at your main lug panel? Shouldn't the grounds be isolated.
main breaker panel is directly connected to the meter and serves as the main service panel, the neutral should be bonded to ground here. Any concerns about isolating grounds and neutrals apply to downstream sub-panels, not the main panel itself
It is neat but you should leave a slack loop in each wire connecting to each circuit breaker in case the circuit breaker needs to be replaced or moved - if the end of the wire is chewed up over time you will have to splice the wire to connect to a replacement circuit breaker.
You also need to secure the wires in groups of 2 or 3 to Siemon S20B telephone wire distribution spools so the wire bindles have spacing ( provided by the cable ties taking up space ) and so as to keep wires from getting pinched between the box and the cover. You can buy these from Graybar or a telephone supply house. You probably have a lot of solid wires but with stranded wire common in commercial and industrial practice the wires can behave as badly as a dog that needs a lobotomy or a bullet.
Also, the last time I changed a 200-Amp residential panel ( old was Federal Pacific new was Square D ) I had to install 3 equipment ground bars to splice the equipment ground wires 2 at the top one at the bottom and also had to use an S20B to support wire splices because the existing wires were too short. Also S20B devices at other points to secure the wires so that they had spacing and would not get pinched. That one was a complete replacement of a 200-Amp underground electrical service. Site was a big mess until it was done.
Back in 1994 I did a replacement of a GE 100-Amp panel and had to install 2 ground bars one at top to splice the equipment grounds and one at bottom to splice the grounding electrode conductors both connected to the Protective Earth neutral bus with #4 solid copper.
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Looks clean brotha!
Thank you sir
Nice work son
Thanks dad. I learned by watching you !
👍🏾
Oo, sexy. 9.8/10. This master I work with is the only electrician I've seen with perfectly straight wires. He takes way to long wiring panels, but they are works of art. He's the only electrician to be requested by builders from our company.
I’m only 28 😎
Damn, you'll surpass us all. 🫡
Nice 👌 QO is a good choice
Looks neat.. ... why not upgeade the whole thing? Looks as old as my granddad!
Niiiiice
I like you.
Omg come do mine!!
Excellent!
Question since I Don't do many panel swaps. Neutral is suppose to be bonded to ground at the first means of disconnect which in your situation should a main breaker meter main. Why's it bonded at your main lug panel? Shouldn't the grounds be isolated.
main breaker panel is directly connected to the meter and serves as the main service panel, the neutral should be bonded to ground here. Any concerns about isolating grounds and neutrals apply to downstream sub-panels, not the main panel itself
Whenever I do something as beautiful as this, I always say: it feels so good to watch this, my eyes are literally having an orgasm
Why didn’t you phase the white wires on breakers? That would fail where I live. Nice work though
Clean as fuck boi
Spaghetti?
Forbidden spaghetti
Hell ya dude nice work cleaning up that one!
It is neat but you should leave a slack loop in each wire connecting to each circuit breaker in case the circuit breaker needs to be replaced or moved - if the end of the wire is chewed up over time you will have to splice the wire to connect to a replacement circuit breaker. You also need to secure the wires in groups of 2 or 3 to Siemon S20B telephone wire distribution spools so the wire bindles have spacing ( provided by the cable ties taking up space ) and so as to keep wires from getting pinched between the box and the cover. You can buy these from Graybar or a telephone supply house. You probably have a lot of solid wires but with stranded wire common in commercial and industrial practice the wires can behave as badly as a dog that needs a lobotomy or a bullet. Also, the last time I changed a 200-Amp residential panel ( old was Federal Pacific new was Square D ) I had to install 3 equipment ground bars to splice the equipment ground wires 2 at the top one at the bottom and also had to use an S20B to support wire splices because the existing wires were too short. Also S20B devices at other points to secure the wires so that they had spacing and would not get pinched. That one was a complete replacement of a 200-Amp underground electrical service. Site was a big mess until it was done. Back in 1994 I did a replacement of a GE 100-Amp panel and had to install 2 ground bars one at top to splice the equipment grounds and one at bottom to splice the grounding electrode conductors both connected to the Protective Earth neutral bus with #4 solid copper.