First.. a bit about myself: I am a student in a local VOTECH program and have taken a couple of intro courses. I am trying to upgrade my service at home from 100a to 200a. I am going to have a licensed electrician come by tomorrow and look at my work and heat up the new panel.
I am surface mounting the new panel box and using a chase nipple to the old pushmatic box (which is on the opposite side of the wall). Then the old box will get a cover I will fabricate from aluminium and be used as a junction box (there is not a door on the old box). I am using some 2" schedule 40 to go up the wall to the joist where the will be a short unprotected run the exterior wall. I know if I was using emt I would have to have some sort of terminator on the end of the conduit to protect the SE cable. Is there a similar need for the schedule 40? Would a coupling be sufficient?
Does anyone have a problem with my intent to fabricate an AL cover to cover the old panel? I intent to replace the entire cover with a solid sheet, not the breaker hole. I COULD leave the breakers in place. but might like the work space in the box to make the extentions using wire nuts to the new box.
Charles Kigar
I am surface mounting the new panel box and using a chase nipple to the old pushmatic box (which is on the opposite side of the wall). Then the old box will get a cover I will fabricate from aluminium and be used as a junction box (there is not a door on the old box). I am using some 2" schedule 40 to go up the wall to the joist where the will be a short unprotected run the exterior wall. I know if I was using emt I would have to have some sort of terminator on the end of the conduit to protect the SE cable. Is there a similar need for the schedule 40? Would a coupling be sufficient?
Does anyone have a problem with my intent to fabricate an AL cover to cover the old panel? I intent to replace the entire cover with a solid sheet, not the breaker hole. I COULD leave the breakers in place. but might like the work space in the box to make the extentions using wire nuts to the new box.
Charles Kigar