- Location
- Tennessee NEC:2017
- Occupation
- Semi-Retired Electrician
I have to replace an old fused panel with a breaker panel. The old box is recessed in a block wall. It looks like the box was set, then blocked around it.
The old cabinet (minus the guts) will stay in the wall for two reasons. The first being the customer would like a way to add circuits later should he need to, and second, it will have to be removed by dynamite!:happyyes: Seriously, I would have to bust the mortar out around it.
What I'm planning on doing is having them build out from the wall with something so the panel can be mounted and a wooden chase above the panel for the conductors to enter.
If the new panel is mounted over the old and using the old as a junction box, would that make the panel/junction box inaccessible?
I think I will have enough conductor length to just reach in the new panel and make splices there. But should they not be long enough, they would need to be spliced in the old panel.
Do you think an inspector would have a problem with the new panel covering up what will now be a JB?
Here are a few pics.
The old cabinet (minus the guts) will stay in the wall for two reasons. The first being the customer would like a way to add circuits later should he need to, and second, it will have to be removed by dynamite!:happyyes: Seriously, I would have to bust the mortar out around it.
What I'm planning on doing is having them build out from the wall with something so the panel can be mounted and a wooden chase above the panel for the conductors to enter.
If the new panel is mounted over the old and using the old as a junction box, would that make the panel/junction box inaccessible?
I think I will have enough conductor length to just reach in the new panel and make splices there. But should they not be long enough, they would need to be spliced in the old panel.
Do you think an inspector would have a problem with the new panel covering up what will now be a JB?
Here are a few pics.