Custom panel schedule on existing panel

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clemver

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I'm curious what everyone does when they trace out and re-schedule an existing panel for residential. I've created a custom panel schedule template in excel and ordered up adhesive sleeves to match, but here's what I feel my only options are:

1. Bring a blank schedule printed out and handwrite the labeling, but I don't have the best handwriting.

2. Fill out the template on my phone and then run out to a Staples, Fedex, whatever to print it out and head back to the customer. Maybe OK if one of those stores is very close by so not ideal.

3. Fill out the template on the computer back at home/office and either mail it to the customer or make an entire 2nd trip out just to leave the schedule in the panel, again not ideal.

How does everyone go about getting these schedules in the panel?
 
I've never made a panel schedule for residential use, I always just use what's provided by the manufacturer. I use EatonBR mostly, which come with strips that go down alongside the breakers. So it's not actually a schedule. It's just written next to the breaker.

I have very nice handwriting and I write in all capitals - Large capital letters for what's typically capitalized, then smaller capital letters for what is typically lowercase.

For commercial, I have used the white sticky labels mentioned by Electrofelon, but not necessarily white.

I was working in a commercial space once, and someone had used some of those labels in green color when a remodel had been done previously.

So I got the idea to go buy some pink ones. At the top of the door, I put one of those pink blanks and then wrote on it "remodel 2009" or whatever.

the year was. That way if you don't know everything, at least you can note the changes you've made.

I did have to make new panel schedules for a restaurant where I worked a remodel, and the owner wanted every panel relabeled, verifying that it was all correct.

There were 13 panels altogether, which had plastic sleeves for the schedules. But those plastic sleeves were not all the same size.

So I hand wrote everything on pieces of notebook paper, then took it home and made all the schedules and printed them.

Then because none of them were the right size, I took them to Kinko's to be printed on to cardstock and each one resized to fit the appropriate sleeve.

That was a two day affair after I had it all written down
 
infinity said:
We use Excel which allows you to update, correct, change, format, whatever you want. Print it out and install a 10 cent sleeve on the panel door.

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Basically what I have. Do you make it a return trip just to drop off the printed out schedule? I think the options I listed are about it I just need to figure out which one sucks the least. Maybe I was hoping there's some outside-the-box idea I hadn't thought of yet. I do like your idea of load labeling though.
 
clemver said:
Basically what I have. Do you make it a return trip just to drop off the printed out schedule?
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Yup. Now with technology if a return trip was very far away I would use a laptop and a portable printer and do it right on the site. You could also email it (or snail mail if they don't have a printer) and ask the client to print it out and slip it into the sleeve.
 
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