Nothing makes me happier as a homeowner than having faulty electrical components replaced with new, up to code components by a qualified technician. Well done. thanks.
@Simonelectricfl how much does something like this generally cost? Ballpark, of course.. My house is missing weatherhead so rain is going straight down into my meter can and breakers underneath. My breaker box under meter is rusting out. Imma have to replace ALL of it I'm afraid! I'm sure it's gonna be at least a couple grand... plus permits! Oh and I have aluminum wiring. All original 1973. 🤯 How do I tell size of meter box I have (without opening it)... outside one if I open front cover the inner cover is so rusted out it sticks to the external cover and tries to come off with it. It's scary for sure!
As a Canadian electrical apprentice I want to thank you for all your informative videos. You are like my unofficial J-man. I only get exposed to so much at work so your videos are gold mine for my professional development. Thanks again and stay safe out there Sparky!
He is in the US though, so be aware on what he does vs what we do up here. Yes a good chunk of the things that both sides do are similar, but there are differences. Just a little heads up.
@RonM. thanks Ron. I always try and look through the lens of the CEC. I like the troubleshooting videos. The stuff that would take years of experience to gain and learn without them say in a construction setting.
You guys are lucky, here in Canada, we use a special impact gun to get 9 feet of copper rod in the ground, we always hit rocks and the soil is rock hard, I wish we could get them in as easy as you showed it! Good job guys!
I have clay soil up in Michigan. I had to add a couple ground rods along with a service upgrade. The rotary hammer method only worked to about 6ft in both locations (about 150ft apart). I had to break out a 10lb sledge to finish it. Seeing you put that in by hand with minimal effort, I'm assuming this is all sitting on sand?
The linemen didn't mind waiting in the truck -- it gave them time to catch up on some RUclips videos. I hear their favorite channels are Simon Electric and Electrician Ron 😊 Nice video. I enjoyed the suspense knowing you needed to complete the mains by the time the inspector came back.
Love the way your team works together. You can tell there is shared respect and that they are wanting to learn. I hope I can find such a team once I'm out in the field.
I remember once when we were on a service build and I tightened the lug on the meter can so much that it broke right off. I had to drive 30 minutes one way back to the shop and grab another meter socket. Since we had the entire service built by then, we just took the socket out of the new can and put it in the one we just put up. This is one of those jobs where I busted my upper lip driving a ground rod with the pile driver. I over stroked it and it busted me right in the mouth. Our journeyman saw the whole thing and said he witnessed an apprentice bust all of his upper teeth out doing the same thing and I was super lucky that day to walk away with all of my teeth.
Same here. We used the Bosch SDS attachment for ground rounds and like you did, stood on a ladder. Not sure if you know this, but we’d soak the area a little before driving, always seemed to help.
HaHA! I love how he told that dude to start digging a ditch with the hammer!!! So Electrician!!! I'm surprised they had a hammer and not digging the ditch with kleins!!! I'm an electrician, I'm laughing because its true.... Great job BTW.
Im in TN and im thinking the same thing lol. I used to live in RI and could drive this all day by hand but down south is no joke. Id be surprised if you got a foot by hand down here
I'm impressed with that ground rod installation. I'm over here in West Virginia we have rock rock rock rock. Working with a ham radio group they replaced a tower at a tower site that they got from the county. Certain individual on the top of the team thought they were just be able to get these big giant screw anchors and screw them into the ground. Can you figure out what happened? I said from the very beginning you're going to have to drill it and put Apoxsee anchors in. No they insisted that they could just drive these anchors into the ground on top of a mountain. After they fought with it a bit I suspect over a few days maybe weeks they finally decided they couldn't do it which must've been a challenge having the electrical engineer admit that he was wrong.
@@Simonelectricfl I work out here in New Mexico, and yea, I'm jealous to say the least! I'm sure its not needed, but have you ever used those ground rod installers that you attach do a hammer drill? It might make your 1 minute install into a 10 second install. But then you have to carry an extra tool. Good job on the work!
I was thinking the exact same thing. That was way to quick and easy. I live in michigan where you have to drive the thing all the way with the hammer and by the time you get it all the way down in the ground you have umbrella shaped the top of the rod beating on it.
Liked seeing new Ground Rods installed and wire. Did not see marking (Red Tape or Heat Shrink) Black insulated wire to differentiate L1 and L2 at Meter and New panel.
I just spoke, cried watching you guys push that ground rod into the ground by hand where I live. You have to use a hilti driver for a good 20 minutes to get halfway into the ground. And if you're lucky, you don't hit a rock and you'll get the thing into the ground within a half an hour, 45 minutes
Those damn federal pioneer panels. I have not had a good experience with them ever. My old home from the 70s and my newer home from the late 2000s both have the same issues. They don’t trip under fault conditions but in my experience they never fail to trip unnecessarily until they wear out. I’m glad that Federal Pioneer Electric no longer exists as a company. Edit: The Federal pacific name applies in the USA. I’m in Canada so it is under a different name for some reason.
Federal pioneer and Pacific are actually 2 different companies, pioneer is the new one and actually passed the tests and i have NEVER had problems with it, on the other hand Pacific is the old company and they faked the testing so those are dangerous i have had a lot of problems with the Pacific breakers.
great work and great video! a few questions: - What type of fasteners did you use to install the new disconnect? I have a lot of troubles with masonry anchors. - What does O.E.M. mean and how do you get replacement parts? - Why didn't you keep the existing grounding rod and just add one more? - What is that white cap that covers the coupling on the conduit for the GEC? I'm just trying to learn, none of my questions are judgmental! Thanks!
We use tapcons, you can order the meter parts or take them out of new meter if made by same company, we don't know how long ground rod is and if it is code, I think the white cap you are asking about is the inter system bonding bridge cover.
@@Simonelectricfl ahh ok I get it. Just doing everything you can to bring it up to code without any assumptions. Well, thank you, these videos are really helpful and it’s nice seeing other guys come up against the same and also different obstacles I come up against. I’m actually looking to move to Jupiter beginning of 2025. If it’s not too much to ask, any advice for an electrician looking to make that move? Anyway, see you on the next one!
@PepperStone3 OEM, OEM, what the heck is OEM? OEM is short for Original Equipment Manufacturer. So if at all possible you like to get parts from them because they should be the exact same dimensions and quality. Of course, if its really old or the company is out business, then your forced to use other suppliers. Some, if your lucky, are as good as the OEM parts, but others are of questionable quality=dimensions are off, and/or poor quality castings so that if you tighten them down, your afraid it will crack or the threads will strip out.
It’s so weird how is some areas main disconnects are located outside. In the northeast the only things located outside are the electrical meters. The main disconnect is nearly almost always located as part of the panel containing the branch circuits and is never found outdoors.
Do you have any advice on changing the meter guts? Were you able to get the screw pattern before ordering the new guts? Are there a few common types you keep on hand?
I can usually tell by looking but there are a few different bolt patterns and depth of blocks my best advice is buy each different meter type also save any old rare parts when you remove an old meter and keep the parts on the truck thats what i did here i had the new parts in my collection i removed from a new meter some time back(easier to store just the guts in the truck and not entire cans)
@Simonelectricfl yea I got ya. I mainly asked because the one you used here didn't look like it was just purchased, and it looked hard to find. I feel like I run across that meter base alot. Thanks sounds good
Seems like half the houses I've been working on lately were built back when the only codes were, only use flat head screws, never use wire nuts, j boxes are optional.
@@Simonelectricfl i will ask one of guys who delt with that here made the news one day when they work they work good but when they go bad boom fire ball
Looks like a landis gyr smart meter. I collect meters, do you have the burnt or dud tbe utility take it with them? What needs to be done to locate the correct transformer for this service is to take an amp draw with an amp meter on the line side wires in the meter, if there is 12 amps then look for thst 12 amps on the wires going to each transformer. Is it a pad mount or a pole mount transformer? If pad mount, very easy to check. I assume there are probably 2 or 3 houses on that transformer. Here we had pad mount, and 2 houses on each pad mount trans. Great work.
Shoukdnt that cold water bond be bonded to the neutral at the first means of disco which would be in the panel to the left and not in the meter like you had it??
If that tag is missing and given that's a federal pacific disconnect I wouldn't be surprised if that was installed before it was policy to tag. Which wasn't a problem you just go ask Bob and he will go well it's that one over there.
Hahaha they put rubber boots on the conductors. Thats just like when I wrap em in rubber tape, because the power companies here really suck and coordinating a shut down is such a PITA that I avoid it unless its absolutely necessary. Only if I gotta replace the meter pan.
With ramming the ground rod in like that, that'd disturb the soil a fair bit with the in / out motion. How does that affect the contact with the soil? It seems there is only hard contact at the end where he hammers it down. It'd settle over time but for some time the contact wouldn't be all that flash? Normally here you'd drive an earth rod in a continuous motion, no pulling it back out, but the minimum length in the ground here is 1.2 metres, typically a 1.4m rod with 10cm+ left protruding with the wire attached above ground, and only single rod.
He's in Florida, their soil is pretty sandy with a high water table. It'll be fine. Where I'm at, it's mostly clay, so the manual installation isn't even an option after about a 18-24 inches, since you can't pull it back out at that point.
You can, according to nec code, literally dig a trench and throw it in the trench, and that would disturb the soil quite a bit more, and that is acceptable, so this is more than effective.
@@Simonelectricfl Similar here, grids etc are all options, but with that style just filling the dirt back in will press it into contact. I don't think it's an official clause in the rules here to not pull the rod in and out but at least in the 80s it was discouraged in classes / training in my area. I'm on the coast where there is a fair amount of sand under the soil but there is a good layer of soil on top of it and you could definitely see where the contact was poor with a newish rod that had been wiggled in, out and around during installation. Definitely not saying what you are doing is wrong of course, just curious about practices.
We would have to upside the wire going to the interor panel it is 2/0 aluminum. Or we could drop the interor panel to 125 amps because that's the largest 2 pull breaker we can get. But the load calculation may not work out to drop down to 125 if we upside the main to 200 amps
You night not be a good electrician. But if the boss if there then don’t rag on the helper. If you think the helper is slow talk to the boss. Otherwise your work is probably gross and you’re slow.
They needed it to be done quickly, and this is a great way for the newer guys to learn. I'm not trying to attack you personally, but I hate the attitude of "it only takes one guy, gett'r done boy!". They're also working next to live conductors, what if something went wrong and the worker is alone? Also, mounting a panel alone with existing conduits entering from different sides can be difficult. I'm only 3 years in the trade, maybe I'm a bish, but why not work with a team, stay safe, teach what you know, and give the customer a better quality install instead of trying to stroke your ego and do it alone? Again, nothing personal towards you, but my company often lacks the man power for jobs like this, and one guy is left struggling to make up for it.
@@PepperStone3 Typical of a small Non Union Contractor ! I am a Retired of IBEW Sevice Truck Driver I have installed up to 600 amp 3 Phase 277/480 volt Services By My Self ! When You are on a Service Truck You are Usally alone that is why they Give You a Service Truck Because You Geter Done as You would say !
always find it funny that americans put their power box on the outside of their house in some areas. that doesnt work in the cold white north. ice and snow would kill those things pretty quick
Couldn’t shove a ground rod into the ground by hand like that here in Tucson, AZ. Hell sometimes even the jackhammer can’t cut it. Thank god for sawzalls and inspections over Skype 😂
Why is it code to have the main 150amp shut off outside. Seems to me anyone can walk up kill your power that kills the house cameras And alarm system. Kinda dumb don't ya think.
They were good guys. i didn't mind. Usually, we need to wait until the linemen comes back once the inspector releases power, and that can take a while sometimes.
whats up with the vocal fry narration? you sound nothing like it speaking in the actual video. kinda annoying imho, but maybe just something that sticks out to me
Rubber hoops. I m a spark in the UK and the USA electrical services is 3rd world it looks like how they do it in India. Whys it's so pants and old fashioned?
Owner of the company don't have no tools...lol.. asking the helpers for theirs....Typical.... Boss who don't do jack ...Bosses are like dirty diapers they always on you a,, and full of shtt !!!! Dude was even too lazy to tie in the hot side of the meter pan....
People replace the gas appliances with electric …. Seen the meter fall out of the can .. added an electric stove and an electric hot water heater…. Along with a 220v dryer and a central air conditioner 220v. Run all them at the same time. Melt down
So the code requires a 1/4 inch between the back of panel and the structure of the building in order to prevent water incursion. But the entire panel is outside exposed to all the elements . Makes no sense. Can’t the panel be inside the garage or better yet inside the house . I don’t get this !
Shoutout to Peterson Electric in Loveland, CO.
Pinned to the top!
Nothing makes me happier as a homeowner than having faulty electrical components replaced with new, up to code components by a qualified technician. Well done. thanks.
Shoutout Ron the electrician! From my home state in NJ and he is a great electrician. I've learned alot from his videos as well as yours.
Shout out electrician Ron!
Thanks guys!
@electricalron no problem!
@Simonelectricfl how much does something like this generally cost? Ballpark, of course..
My house is missing weatherhead so rain is going straight down into my meter can and breakers underneath. My breaker box under meter is rusting out. Imma have to replace ALL of it I'm afraid! I'm sure it's gonna be at least a couple grand... plus permits! Oh and I have aluminum wiring. All original 1973. 🤯
How do I tell size of meter box I have (without opening it)... outside one if I open front cover the inner cover is so rusted out it sticks to the external cover and tries to come off with it.
It's scary for sure!
As a Canadian electrical apprentice I want to thank you for all your informative videos. You are like my unofficial J-man. I only get exposed to so much at work so your videos are gold mine for my professional development. Thanks again and stay safe out there Sparky!
He is in the US though, so be aware on what he does vs what we do up here. Yes a good chunk of the things that both sides do are similar, but there are differences. Just a little heads up.
@RonM. thanks Ron. I always try and look through the lens of the CEC. I like the troubleshooting videos. The stuff that would take years of experience to gain and learn without them say in a construction setting.
You guys are lucky, here in Canada, we use a special impact gun to get 9 feet of copper rod in the ground, we always hit rocks and the soil is rock hard, I wish we could get them in as easy as you showed it! Good job guys!
A special impact😂it’s a hammer drill we have em too . I think they’re in Florida or something that soil looks softer than puppy shit.
I have clay soil up in Michigan. I had to add a couple ground rods along with a service upgrade. The rotary hammer method only worked to about 6ft in both locations (about 150ft apart). I had to break out a 10lb sledge to finish it. Seeing you put that in by hand with minimal effort, I'm assuming this is all sitting on sand?
I grew up and started out as an electrician in Buffalo ny just across the Niagara river from Ontario, Canada. The ground was hard in Buffalo, also
The linemen didn't mind waiting in the truck -- it gave them time to catch up on some RUclips videos. I hear their favorite channels are Simon Electric and Electrician Ron 😊
Nice video. I enjoyed the suspense knowing you needed to complete the mains by the time the inspector came back.
Thanks! Yea, I think they enjoyed the light duty day, lol!
They were probably sitting in the truck laughing their asses off.....
Love the way your team works together. You can tell there is shared respect and that they are wanting to learn. I hope I can find such a team once I'm out in the field.
You seem like a good person to work for. Good job guys.
Teach them well! Hats off to you!
I try to at least
Great Video, Thank you! My only suggestion is a close up of the final product, I love to see good electrician workmanship.
Here in the UK the standard colours for plastic conduit are white and black. Underground ducting which is grey is usually telecomms
Nice! The twist is required by the Eaton brand surge protection. I’m not sure about the other brands like Square D for instance.
Thanks for the info! I think it helps all surge protection devices.
I prefer the ones that plug in on the busbar.
I remember once when we were on a service build and I tightened the lug on the meter can so much that it broke right off. I had to drive 30 minutes one way back to the shop and grab another meter socket. Since we had the entire service built by then, we just took the socket out of the new can and put it in the one we just put up. This is one of those jobs where I busted my upper lip driving a ground rod with the pile driver. I over stroked it and it busted me right in the mouth. Our journeyman saw the whole thing and said he witnessed an apprentice bust all of his upper teeth out doing the same thing and I was super lucky that day to walk away with all of my teeth.
For sure it does not take a hard hit with a ground rod driver to snap off some teef
45 years and I NEVER had a ground rod go down that easy.
True that!!
Right normally gotta use the sds to hammer them down while standing on ladder.
Same here. We used the Bosch SDS attachment for ground rounds and like you did, stood on a ladder. Not sure if you know this, but we’d soak the area a little before driving, always seemed to help.
That white pvc pipe is 100% plumbing pipe😮
@@rm9015duh...
HaHA! I love how he told that dude to start digging a ditch with the hammer!!! So Electrician!!! I'm surprised they had a hammer and not digging the ditch with kleins!!! I'm an electrician, I'm laughing because its true.... Great job BTW.
I'd love to see you try shoving that ground rod in some GA clay lol. Nice work!
Haha, I would give it a go, but probably a hammer is needed about 10 feet sooner lol
Im in TN and im thinking the same thing lol. I used to live in RI and could drive this all day by hand but down south is no joke. Id be surprised if you got a foot by hand down here
I'm impressed with that ground rod installation. I'm over here in West Virginia we have rock rock rock rock. Working with a ham radio group they replaced a tower at a tower site that they got from the county. Certain individual on the top of the team thought they were just be able to get these big giant screw anchors and screw them into the ground. Can you figure out what happened? I said from the very beginning you're going to have to drill it and put Apoxsee anchors in. No they insisted that they could just drive these anchors into the ground on top of a mountain. After they fought with it a bit I suspect over a few days maybe weeks they finally decided they couldn't do it which must've been a challenge having the electrical engineer admit that he was wrong.
wtf I've never had a ground rod drive in that easy, I'm jealous lol.
Haha it's all the sugar sand Florida is built on😂
@@Simonelectricfl I work out here in New Mexico, and yea, I'm jealous to say the least!
I'm sure its not needed, but have you ever used those ground rod installers that you attach do a hammer drill? It might make your 1 minute install into a 10 second install. But then you have to carry an extra tool.
Good job on the work!
I was thinking the exact same thing. That was way to quick and easy. I live in michigan where you have to drive the thing all the way with the hammer and by the time you get it all the way down in the ground you have umbrella shaped the top of the rod beating on it.
@@Simonelectricflhere in Georgia never
Liked seeing new Ground Rods installed and wire. Did not see marking (Red Tape or Heat Shrink) Black insulated wire to differentiate L1 and L2 at Meter and New panel.
I just spoke, cried watching you guys push that ground rod into the ground by hand where I live. You have to use a hilti driver for a good 20 minutes to get halfway into the ground. And if you're lucky, you don't hit a rock and you'll get the thing into the ground within a half an hour, 45 minutes
We have an SDS adaptor for our drill to sink rods, saves ages!
Geez! What a cute puppy!😊
His name is Enrique
Nice work. I would like to see a tape measure used and explained to the young guy why it has to be measured out.
Tell the FPL guys I said hi. I see them at the international language Rodeo every year in Kansas City they definitely bring good food with them.
Those damn federal pioneer panels. I have not had a good experience with them ever. My old home from the 70s and my newer home from the late 2000s both have the same issues. They don’t trip under fault conditions but in my experience they never fail to trip unnecessarily until they wear out. I’m glad that Federal Pioneer Electric no longer exists as a company.
Edit: The Federal pacific name applies in the USA. I’m in Canada so it is under a different name for some reason.
Federal pioneer and Pacific are actually 2 different companies, pioneer is the new one and actually passed the tests and i have NEVER had problems with it, on the other hand Pacific is the old company and they faked the testing so those are dangerous i have had a lot of problems with the Pacific breakers.
People just get the names mixed up.
I grew up on the border of Canada in Buffalo ny. I loved visiting 🇨🇦
Best video ⚡️⚡️⚡️thank you for time sir.
Thank you for watching!
great work and great video!
a few questions:
- What type of fasteners did you use to install the new disconnect? I have a lot of troubles with masonry anchors.
- What does O.E.M. mean and how do you get replacement parts?
- Why didn't you keep the existing grounding rod and just add one more?
- What is that white cap that covers the coupling on the conduit for the GEC?
I'm just trying to learn, none of my questions are judgmental! Thanks!
We use tapcons, you can order the meter parts or take them out of new meter if made by same company, we don't know how long ground rod is and if it is code, I think the white cap you are asking about is the inter system bonding bridge cover.
@@Simonelectricfl ahh ok I get it. Just doing everything you can to bring it up to code without any assumptions.
Well, thank you, these videos are really helpful and it’s nice seeing other guys come up against the same and also different obstacles I come up against.
I’m actually looking to move to Jupiter beginning of 2025. If it’s not too much to ask, any advice for an electrician looking to make that move?
Anyway, see you on the next one!
@PepperStone3 OEM, OEM, what the heck is OEM? OEM is short for Original Equipment Manufacturer. So if at all possible you like to get parts from them because they should be the exact same dimensions and quality. Of course, if its really old or the company is out business, then your forced to use other suppliers. Some, if your lucky, are as good as the OEM parts, but others are of questionable quality=dimensions are off, and/or poor quality castings so that if you tighten them down, your afraid it will crack or the threads will strip out.
@@davidmarquardt9034 ah that makes so much sense now. Thank you for sharing 👍
grate work on the whole job
Thank you!
It’s so weird how is some areas main disconnects are located outside. In the northeast the only things located outside are the electrical meters. The main disconnect is nearly almost always located as part of the panel containing the branch circuits and is never found outdoors.
Just subscribed, Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the sub! And for watching!
The only good thing about flathead is that you can use its screwdriver as a prybar. Imagine opening a paint can with a Torx xD
True lol
That a cool trick with the gorunding bushing gonna use it next time
Thanks! I'm glad you noticed, and it will be helpful for you in the future.
Do you have any advice on changing the meter guts? Were you able to get the screw pattern before ordering the new guts? Are there a few common types you keep on hand?
I can usually tell by looking but there are a few different bolt patterns and depth of blocks my best advice is buy each different meter type also save any old rare parts when you remove an old meter and keep the parts on the truck thats what i did here i had the new parts in my collection i removed from a new meter some time back(easier to store just the guts in the truck and not entire cans)
@Simonelectricfl yea I got ya. I mainly asked because the one you used here didn't look like it was just purchased, and it looked hard to find. I feel like I run across that meter base alot. Thanks sounds good
Seems like half the houses I've been working on lately were built back when the only codes were, only use flat head screws, never use wire nuts, j boxes are optional.
we stopped useing those surge blocks here had a few of them catch fire and start fires that the fire dept gets to put out:)
What brand?
@@Simonelectricfl i will ask one of guys who delt with that here made the news one day when they work they work good but when they go bad boom fire ball
@@Simonelectricfl what brands do you use ?
The external type? @apctech1 what about the ones that mount in the panel,like a ckt breaker?
@@cengeb the ones here were like the kind you see in simons video but i have to find out what brand
Looks like a landis gyr smart meter. I collect meters, do you have the burnt or dud tbe utility take it with them? What needs to be done to locate the correct transformer for this service is to take an amp draw with an amp meter on the line side wires in the meter, if there is 12 amps then look for thst 12 amps on the wires going to each transformer. Is it a pad mount or a pole mount transformer? If pad mount, very easy to check. I assume there are probably 2 or 3 houses on that transformer. Here we had pad mount, and 2 houses on each pad mount trans. Great work.
Pad mount and the utility has the meter itself.
I just changed a burnt FPE meter today except this time was in a concrete wall needles to say it was a long day especially when working solo
I hate when they are in concrete!
First time I seen the black helper with tools and smarter than the owner....lol...
Love the training.
Good job🎉
Thanks!
Shoukdnt that cold water bond be bonded to the neutral at the first means of disco which would be in the panel to the left and not in the meter like you had it??
Aluminum oxidation on electrical connections without oxidation preventative in humid Florida strikes again.
Panels outside are mind boggling to me.
Man I'm so glad I don't have to work on stucco. Probably nothing to you. Looks like a PITA to me. -Texas
If that tag is missing and given that's a federal pacific disconnect I wouldn't be surprised if that was installed before it was policy to tag. Which wasn't a problem you just go ask Bob and he will go well it's that one over there.
Nice job!
Thanks!
Hahaha they put rubber boots on the conductors. Thats just like when I wrap em in rubber tape, because the power companies here really suck and coordinating a shut down is such a PITA that I avoid it unless its absolutely necessary. Only if I gotta replace the meter pan.
I try to avoid it also
guess would have found transformer if that meter totally shorted. what caused it?😊
With ramming the ground rod in like that, that'd disturb the soil a fair bit with the in / out motion. How does that affect the contact with the soil? It seems there is only hard contact at the end where he hammers it down. It'd settle over time but for some time the contact wouldn't be all that flash? Normally here you'd drive an earth rod in a continuous motion, no pulling it back out, but the minimum length in the ground here is 1.2 metres, typically a 1.4m rod with 10cm+ left protruding with the wire attached above ground, and only single rod.
He's in Florida, their soil is pretty sandy with a high water table. It'll be fine. Where I'm at, it's mostly clay, so the manual installation isn't even an option after about a 18-24 inches, since you can't pull it back out at that point.
You can, according to nec code, literally dig a trench and throw it in the trench, and that would disturb the soil quite a bit more, and that is acceptable, so this is more than effective.
Both ground rods are driven below grade level after inspection
@thomasbonse it was the same way wear I grew up clay and rock
@@Simonelectricfl Similar here, grids etc are all options, but with that style just filling the dirt back in will press it into contact. I don't think it's an official clause in the rules here to not pull the rod in and out but at least in the 80s it was discouraged in classes / training in my area. I'm on the coast where there is a fair amount of sand under the soil but there is a good layer of soil on top of it and you could definitely see where the contact was poor with a newish rod that had been wiggled in, out and around during installation. Definitely not saying what you are doing is wrong of course, just curious about practices.
fastest meater can wire up and cover replacement in history:) i noticed one of the wires the orange cap came off were they turned off or just capped?
The uncapped was the neutral, and I did not film the utility guys working they closed the meter and landed the hot wires.
@@Simonelectricfl that would have been fun it they blew up stuff :) the same guys who could not find the transformer that was sad
Why two earth rods?
Why not just put in 200 amp panel and meter? Is an overload what caused the meter to burn?
We would have to upside the wire going to the interor panel it is 2/0 aluminum. Or we could drop the interor panel to 125 amps because that's the largest 2 pull breaker we can get. But the load calculation may not work out to drop down to 125 if we upside the main to 200 amps
Jeez. That poor kid is so clueless. Youre very kind to bring on someone so green. Although, electrical is dangerous to someone so oblivious.
He is learning.
Everyone was green. Teaching new guys is the only way to grow your company.
@henrykosheff9691 yeah that is true, very true. I guess as an apprentice, we were treated differently. Let's just say ralph is very kind and patient
You night not be a good electrician. But if the boss if there then don’t rag on the helper. If you think the helper is slow talk to the boss. Otherwise your work is probably gross and you’re slow.
@henrykosheff9691 yes. That's exactly it. Thank you for opening my eyes to it.
Are you allowed to go oversize on the bare copper for grounding?
Yes
Three Men to do a one Man Job !
Get it gone 3x faster
They needed it to be done quickly, and this is a great way for the newer guys to learn. I'm not trying to attack you personally, but I hate the attitude of "it only takes one guy, gett'r done boy!".
They're also working next to live conductors, what if something went wrong and the worker is alone?
Also, mounting a panel alone with existing conduits entering from different sides can be difficult. I'm only 3 years in the trade, maybe I'm a bish, but why not work with a team, stay safe, teach what you know, and give the customer a better quality install instead of trying to stroke your ego and do it alone?
Again, nothing personal towards you, but my company often lacks the man power for jobs like this, and one guy is left struggling to make up for it.
@@PepperStone3 Typical of a small Non Union Contractor ! I am a Retired of IBEW Sevice Truck Driver I have installed up to 600 amp 3 Phase 277/480 volt Services By My Self ! When You are on a Service Truck You are Usally alone that is why they Give You a Service Truck Because You Geter Done as You would say !
@@thunderbolt5354 whatever you say hot shot
@@PepperStone3 have some respect Boy !
Fpl still exists in your area?
always find it funny that americans put their power box on the outside of their house in some areas. that doesnt work in the cold white north. ice and snow would kill those things pretty quick
Dawn soap spray will solve the ants !
I have heard of that with bees. Does it work with ants, too?
5:30 whoever taped that ground wire never heard the term “flag it don’t be a *****” lol
2 x 120 volts in i think and 220
Couldn’t shove a ground rod into the ground by hand like that here in Tucson, AZ. Hell sometimes even the jackhammer can’t cut it.
Thank god for sawzalls and inspections over Skype 😂
Haha 🪚✂️
Why would u twist those wires? Reduce EMI interference is the only thing i can think of.. but not.sure why u need that???
Why is it code to have the main 150amp shut off outside. Seems to me anyone can walk up kill your power that kills the house cameras
And alarm system. Kinda dumb don't ya think.
Electricians doing stucco work, Yeesh.
How much would a job like that cost?
FPE panels= fire cracker panels. junk , good thing they are done away with.
I agree!
shout out preston link electric from gainesville fl
Unless u guys are 5ft tall that panel is too high
Sounds like lazy lineman that could have figured that out if they wanted to but no they sat there and waited well maybe they're not so dumb
They were good guys. i didn't mind. Usually, we need to wait until the linemen comes back once the inspector releases power, and that can take a while sometimes.
A tent LOL after 50 years of work as a electrician I never have used one
It's so much better in the sun like this plus if it rains (it rains daily here) you can keep going
Electrician that wears a gold bracelet and a metal watch. Definitely has never attended any safety classes?
Do you not see the primary service is disconnected?
You must be a beginner electrician with no tools. Use a hammer drill with hammer tool. Use #4 solid much easier. A 1 man little job
whats up with the vocal fry narration? you sound nothing like it speaking in the actual video. kinda annoying imho, but maybe just something that sticks out to me
Rubber hoops. I m a spark in the UK and the USA electrical services is 3rd world it looks like how they do it in India.
Whys it's so pants and old fashioned?
$50 for meterbox with guts
Owner of the company don't have no tools...lol.. asking the helpers for theirs....Typical.... Boss who don't do jack ...Bosses are like dirty diapers they always on you a,, and full of shtt !!!! Dude was even too lazy to tie in the hot side of the meter pan....
People replace the gas appliances with electric …. Seen the meter fall out of the can .. added an electric stove and an electric hot water heater…. Along with a 220v dryer and a central air conditioner 220v. Run all them at the same time. Melt down
So the code requires a 1/4 inch between the back of panel and the structure of the building in order to prevent water incursion. But the entire panel is outside exposed to all the elements . Makes no sense. Can’t the panel be inside the garage or better yet inside the house . I don’t get this !
Loose the jewelry...BAD PRATICE...accident waiting to happen!
Dont worry, it has a space-age polymer safty coating.😂
To be able to drive a ground rod with just my hands. 🥹