Choose Wisely Or You’ll Fail Your Electrical Inspection | Cabin Sub Panel Wiring Installation-Ep 45
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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There are so many types of breakers out there, it was challenging to learn enough about the electrical code to know what kind to use for each electrical circuit of the Cabin. Check out how I installed some single pole, double pole, arc fault protected and ground fault protected circuit breakers. You will have to make sure you do this right since you will most likely have to pass an inspection from your city or county.
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Content of the video :
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Main Panel vs Sub Panel
01:17 - Types of Circuit Breaker
03:35 - I am not a pro!
03:56 - Discount Lots
05:02 - ACFI Breaker Installation
07:20 - Single Pole Breaker Installation
08:26 - ACFI/GFCI Breaker Installation
09:24 - Timelapse Circuit Breakers
09:40 - Double Pole Breaker Installation
11:20 - Timelapse Double Pole Breakers
11:30 - Snappy Things
11:59 - Extra Ground Bar
12:06 - Next Time!
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I’ve seen licensed contractors doing very bad work in my business good job brother man 👊🏽
Thanks !
Missing your videos….welcome back!
Thanks Dennis !
There’s usually a strip gauge on the side of the breaker to show you how long the strip the wire. There’s also a torque setting to tell you how tight to tighten the terminal with a torque wrench or torque screwdriver.
Thanks, I wonder if electrician do this.
When I installed my mini split system on my house, I got a pro to do all the final connections, the flare connections also need a torque wrench, well I can tell you they just had a regular wrench…
@@TheDIYCabinGuy unfortunately most don’t. There is a famous lawsuit where a house burned down, and when the electrician was on the stand, the plaintiffs attorney only asked him one question. Do you own a torque wrench? He said no, and wound up being liable for millions of dollars of fire damage. That being said, many experienced electricians, have a torque wrench built into their elbow or at least they think they do :)
@@21trips yes I guess it comes with experience.
Good explanation. Thanks. My son and I are doing electrical and plumbing at his cabin. Some done this past weekend and more on our next trip to the cabin.
Nice! I hope it’ll pass inspection !
@@TheDIYCabinGuy im sure it will. We spoke to the local inspector to clarify some things. Plus we have done a fair amount on our own houses over the years.
Nevermind you prob have the 3 prong 220! very cool vid - thanks for the video !
Thanks
In the video you said you cut one of the ground wires too short to connect to the left ground bar and would maybe buy another ground bar to install on the right. Why couldn't you use something like a copper split bolt connector to splice a longer piece of copper to the shorter one so you can still use the left ground bar?
I didn’t even think about that 🤣 but yeah if such a connector exists, that should work
When you have 240 volts, you need 12/3 wire, not 12/2. 2 power, 1 neutral, 1 ground. Same with your water heater, 10/3
Are you sure? A google search says otherwise. I understand that for an electric range or dryer you would need a 4 wires total but it seems like for a water heater, cooktop and mini split which will be directly hardwired, 3 wires (2 hot and one ground) are sufficient.
Would love for someone to confirm this or tell me what I’m missing.
@@TheDIYCabinGuy with your 2 hot wires you need a neutral to return the current and complete the circuit. You can't use the bare wire (ground) as a neutral, only an earth ground. You will need to drive a copper ground rod into the ground under where your panel is, which will connect your ground buss you installed into the panel. This will connect all the bare copper wires from every circuit into the ground. Every circuit also needs a neutral (white) to complete the power circuit. The black provides the power for 120, a black and a red provide power for a 240 (120+120=240). 12/3 has a black, red, white and bare copper.
@@mittenstategarage9093 that makes sense, but if you do an internet search, it seems like water heaters, mini split do not need a neutral Wire, just two hot and a ground.
I stand corrected. My apologies. I learned something new!
@@mittenstategarage9093 I really wanted to know too, I needed to know if I was going to have to run new 12/3 wires. I’ll let you guys know what the inspector will say once I have him look at all this, I’m sure it’ll find some issues here and there.