Comments/Advice on new service entrance.

[hillbilly1]

Here’s a thread on the issue

What's the dimensions on the required "running boards" you speak of?

failed inspection: wires within 6 ' of attic access

Elec. Inspector said I have to have attic wires within 6 feet of attic access to be supported by a "furring strip." He quoted a fire code to the customer. That took some time for me to do. It will be easier from now on for me to just stay 6 feet away. First I've ever had to deal with this.

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[4x4dually]

As long as the load side of the gfi isn’t, you’re fine.

There will be no "load" side connections. These are all dedicated to one outlet only.

Call me an over achiever. Whoever wired the kitchen in the fair barn at our school should be locked in a toilet and set on fire. Almost every time we have a function someone plugs two or more crock pots or boasters into the outlets and they start tripping breakers. There are only like 3 circuits for the entire kitchen servicing the counter tops. Since I'm the "electrical" person they all know....I always get volunteered to get them all back going. Not having that in our new home. The wife can plug as many dang crock pots in as she likes.

 

[4x4dually]

Here’s a thread on the issue

failed inspection: wires within 6 ' of attic access

Elec. Inspector said I have to have attic wires within 6 feet of attic access to be supported by a "furring strip." He quoted a fire code to the customer. That took some time for me to do. It will be easier from now on for me to just stay 6 feet away. First I've ever had to deal with this.

forums.mikeholt.com

That never crossed my mind. The whole idea on that decking is that the geothermal unit will sit up there and we can walk up the stairs to service it and change the filter. I will have to step over it each time I go up there. I bet I can find a piece of 12' steel building perlin and lay over it to protect it. It will most likely be me up there most of the time but doing that would sure be better than damaging one of them.

 

[hillbilly1]

There will be no "load" side connections. These are all dedicated to one outlet only.

Call me an over achiever. Whoever wired the kitchen in the fair barn at our school should be locked in a toilet and set on fire. Almost every time we have a function someone plugs two or more crock pots or boasters into the outlets and they start tripping breakers. There are only like 3 circuits for the entire kitchen servicing the counter tops. Since I'm the "electrical" person they all know....I always get volunteered to get them all back going. Not having that in our new home. The wife can plug as many dang crock pots in as she likes.

Just rewired a new food truck, they had every receptacle including the small tank water heater on a #12 with a 30 amp breaker! On a commercial kitchen I put every outlet on a dedicated circuit (Waffle House is the same way). On a residential kitchen, I put no more than two outlets on a circuit.

 

[gadfly56]

Finally got the house to the point of making up panels. They aren't perfect I'm sure and I'm not posting them up to hear everything I've done wrong. And no, I'm not buying into the AFCI BS. I'm in the boonies with no inspections. I did use a couple zip ties to keep it clean so spare me the bundling harassments too, would ya? I pulled the grounds tight and the very few ties on the non-grounded conductors aren't tight, just enough to keep everything looking decent.

Looking back now I probably should have put both panels in the laundry room as my fella okie suggested above. I was trying to keep the service feeders short. There is a lot of wire in the attic. O well. She's done now. I enjoy the panel make-up most of all. I don't miss wiring houses other than the panels.

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There's extra wire since I follow joists and make it nice. These "spider-wiring" jobs that have crap ran every where on all angles make my eyes twitch. I could never handle that in my attic. It turned out nice and I'm fairly happy with it, but like always, now that I'm done, I would have changed a few things.

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Heck, if you did that panel work in my house I'd be tickled pink.

 

[Tulsa Electrician]

Heck, if you did that panel work in my house I'd be tickled pink.

It does look nice. Can't wait to see it done. Good job

 

[4x4dually]

Heck, if you did that panel work in my house I'd be tickled pink.

It does look nice. Can't wait to see it done. Good job

Thanks guys.

I put a 200A panel in the barndaminium that we live in now back in 2005 when we built it. It has been added to and changed and added to since then. I wouldn't open it for $100 if any of ya'll were watching. LOL It's truly a disgrace. I'm ready to move across the yard into this house, pull a bunch of that crap back out, and clean it up like it should be.