HeartBreak
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This was done all day yesterday and today.. From a humble breaker panel to this beast.
10 points to whoever guesses what each box is, lol.
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This was done all day yesterday and today.. From a humble breaker panel to this beast.
10 points to whoever guesses what each box is, lol.
The one all the way to the right looks like cable/satellite, the one all the way left looks like a power cut off to something (a/c unit maybe) The one with the meter and the one next to it are the breaker boxes, the long one underneath is a huge junction box.
Am I even close?
Am I even close?
beason
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the right one is prolly phone box. the bottom left is the main cutoff for the house.. right center is the meter box and left center is breaker box.. bottom is just a junction
good work nice clean install.. i had to redo a water main, a gas main, and an electrical line to my water well, a few weekends ago.. (they were all in the same trench, water was metal pipe UNDERGROUND and rusted.. gas line was the same, seemed to be cast or wrott iron, and electrical got cut digging up the water line that busted and started this whole mess) yep i can see where that would be a long day.. but bet you feel great you could do it yourself and not have to pay someone to come do it..
good work nice clean install.. i had to redo a water main, a gas main, and an electrical line to my water well, a few weekends ago.. (they were all in the same trench, water was metal pipe UNDERGROUND and rusted.. gas line was the same, seemed to be cast or wrott iron, and electrical got cut digging up the water line that busted and started this whole mess) yep i can see where that would be a long day.. but bet you feel great you could do it yourself and not have to pay someone to come do it..
Tarant
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Cvec got it, just remember to do that one thing before you do the other thing or else you will have to call the guy back up and he will have another long day replace both things,
I have no clue if you can't figure it out, i can send that pic to my uncle, he would know, he does house's and electrical work.
I have no clue if you can't figure it out, i can send that pic to my uncle, he would know, he does house's and electrical work.
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HeartBreak
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Pretty close... The order in which they are;
The small box on the left with "P and G" on it, that's a switch for 7 circuits (food storage, stove, microwave, water heater, and a light and outlet in the living area, garage lights/opener), which is switched from "normal" service to a generator, during blackouts.
The phone box is actually down out of the picture, directly below the meter, along the brown stripe.
The next one over to the right houses the 7 breakers for the above circuits.
Next one over is the main and the rest of the breakers (whirlpool tub, disposer, dish washer, all the other circuits).
The long skinny one that runs horizontal is the "pass thru gutter".
And, lastly, the far right one that has the black coax coming out of the bottom; that's the local cable companys "super-dee-dooper cable booster" (a grounded-to-the-breaker-panel-splitter). Since I'm on Dish (love it), it's dead, and soon to be removed.
Smaxxin actually nailed it dead-on, minus the fact that the central air is in the main box.
The whole affair is a 200 amp service panel, upped from 100amp that was 35 years old with a tie-in for a generator. The local PGE branch has a nasty habit of returning power to the other side of the street a WEEK before this side.
Actually, a local electical company did the work (had to have PGE dead the house for the day today). I wouldn't even DARE touch the mains.. not even with someone I hated's hands. The main input lines up in the roof-jack were cracking, so who knows what kind of condition the rest of the house is in, wire-wise.
All I know is, everything is that-much-brighter... even the Bigscreen is much clearer (and that's saying a lot, with my poor sight, lol).
So... anyone know if they make a natural gas powered generator (on the order of a full-house-powering one)? I know they make a propane one, so it can't be that much different....... (famous last words, lol).
The small box on the left with "P and G" on it, that's a switch for 7 circuits (food storage, stove, microwave, water heater, and a light and outlet in the living area, garage lights/opener), which is switched from "normal" service to a generator, during blackouts.
The phone box is actually down out of the picture, directly below the meter, along the brown stripe.
The next one over to the right houses the 7 breakers for the above circuits.
Next one over is the main and the rest of the breakers (whirlpool tub, disposer, dish washer, all the other circuits).
The long skinny one that runs horizontal is the "pass thru gutter".
And, lastly, the far right one that has the black coax coming out of the bottom; that's the local cable companys "super-dee-dooper cable booster" (a grounded-to-the-breaker-panel-splitter). Since I'm on Dish (love it), it's dead, and soon to be removed.
Smaxxin actually nailed it dead-on, minus the fact that the central air is in the main box.
The whole affair is a 200 amp service panel, upped from 100amp that was 35 years old with a tie-in for a generator. The local PGE branch has a nasty habit of returning power to the other side of the street a WEEK before this side.
Actually, a local electical company did the work (had to have PGE dead the house for the day today). I wouldn't even DARE touch the mains.. not even with someone I hated's hands. The main input lines up in the roof-jack were cracking, so who knows what kind of condition the rest of the house is in, wire-wise.
All I know is, everything is that-much-brighter... even the Bigscreen is much clearer (and that's saying a lot, with my poor sight, lol).
So... anyone know if they make a natural gas powered generator (on the order of a full-house-powering one)? I know they make a propane one, so it can't be that much different....... (famous last words, lol).
that wouldn't pass inspection here.....NO PIPE on top of exterior panels....Driving rain makes water travel down the pipe and runs through the threads into the panel.....makes it a bitch to reroute wiring done that way on the older houses.......don't know about a NG generator but I can set you up to auto switch to it if you have an electric starter....if your power goes out (CT switch) I make the main switch off and turn on the generator from UPS power automatically....and do the opposite when power returns.....
HeartBreak
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The pipe on the main box is the new roof mast, where the main comes in... The other goes up and into the attic space (under the eave, sealed to the wall).
I'll have to look into the automatic genny switch. Shouldn't be all that hard to impliment. For the time being, the generator being used is a 5,000 watt (60amp or so) Homelite. It's small, but it gets'er done. It's got a pull-start on it, so the automatic ignition wouldn't work. But, when the larger unit (thinking Army Surplus...) is installed, that's the route to go.
I'm just hoping that there is a NG type of generator (no refilling whatsoever, as the NG is the one service that NEVER goes out around here)... Maybe run a one-way valve off the gas main (after the meter, of course).... Sounds like a job for google, lol.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/...erformics&cm_pla=Performics&cm_ite=Performics
$9000, none too shabby... Whatcha think, Plaid?
I'll have to look into the automatic genny switch. Shouldn't be all that hard to impliment. For the time being, the generator being used is a 5,000 watt (60amp or so) Homelite. It's small, but it gets'er done. It's got a pull-start on it, so the automatic ignition wouldn't work. But, when the larger unit (thinking Army Surplus...) is installed, that's the route to go.
I'm just hoping that there is a NG type of generator (no refilling whatsoever, as the NG is the one service that NEVER goes out around here)... Maybe run a one-way valve off the gas main (after the meter, of course).... Sounds like a job for google, lol.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/...erformics&cm_pla=Performics&cm_ite=Performics
$9000, none too shabby... Whatcha think, Plaid?
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Man, that's what we need. DP&L sucks! We were without power for six days, in Janurary, after an ice storm. Sure the neighbors got their power back on Saturday, but we had to wait untill Tuesday. Tuesday and Wednesday this week we lost power right around 9:30, 9:45 both days. Took 'em an hour to get the power back on Tuesday. Yesterday it took them four hours. It was two hours, before they even had trucks out here.
It is amazing the difference a new power box can make. We had to have our replced, because one of the contacts was bad. Now the lights don't flicker, when the refridgerator kicks on.
It is amazing the difference a new power box can make. We had to have our replced, because one of the contacts was bad. Now the lights don't flicker, when the refridgerator kicks on.
Nice generator...I still use 2 7500w ones...lol...I just built a box behind my dad's place and hooked em up there....I figure if all goes to hell in a handbasket I'd rather be there than my place.....that unit would be SAAAWWHHEEEEEET!!!!! you could sell to your neighbors and pay it off by gouging them for power.....seems to be the american way nowadays
HeartBreak
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Not a bad idea, plaid! I could also do the solar thing, once the super-heavy-duty ones come about... The possibilities are literally endless..... Maybe in two years, solar, and that beast of a genny...
