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Say, thank you for the video. It was informative and direct. Good video for sure

My whole upstairs lights are flickering u think theirs a good chance its a breaker mt house is very old

I'm having an issue where im not getting full power to my house. When my refrigerator cranks on, you can here it not getting full power and its sucking power away from my fan; fan slows way down. Any help, thanks!

How do you determine if the breaker isn't tripping when there is a short circuit or arcing? I had a situation where an old 12awg wire got damaged against a sharp edge in a too small metal box when installing a gfci and the wire melted when I turned the breaker on but it didn't trip the breaker before I manually shut it off. Now that was an arcing situation and not a direct short and this was a standard non gfci/afci breaker. Does that mean the breaker is not necessarily bad? I will probably replace it with a new one but I will still be wondering if it was bad or not.

Crooked ass lights scabs work👍

That spaghetti hanging out of the box is burnt

I was replacing a water pressure regulator with my boss on a house when a storm rolled in. Just after disconnecting the WPR, while we were readying the new regulator, an ark leapt from the water supply to the copper pipes of the house... That ark was so loud and bright. I'm very glad I wasn't holding both ends of the copper pipes when it happened. I'm pretty sure I escaped death. Another job I was called to was an outdoor unit (HVAC) that had been hit by lightning. The destruction path was surprisingly, intricate. There was a hole in the accumulator to start but somehow the air-handler took the brunt. As you looked at the air-handler... Every screw holding the doors on had a sooty black star pattern. The indoor coil had a hole. The t-stat wire needed to be replaced from t-stat to handler. And... The t-stat needed to be replaced... I cannot believe we didn't replace the unit lol. But it's crazy how lost lightning can get.

how about the SE cable strap installed backwards inside the panel? Nice.

from the outside it looks like it hit the line for the outdated pots and sometimes lightning can be like a mini EMP like i can remember when lightning struck the transformer or the ground wire for the transformer of which the lighting arrestor failed as it literally exploded i used to find shards of it and the transformer ended up failing as they was unable to get it to energize even after replacing the pole fuse.....that old thing wasnt rated for 200 amp service anyways but onyl things that seemed damage was low voltage stuff like not everytihng with a circuit board was fried like i had u-verse at the time the stuff on ethernet got cooked like the dvr i had dead alongw th some ethernet switches and one of my wireless routers and somehow even the thermostat which has its own wires

I played this bad boy at 1.75 and felt like Trinity when she learned how to fly the helicopter

Cut a piece of cardboard from the box the panel comes in and masking tape it to the panel cover (completely covering it) so the drywallers can't get shit all over them. I usually slice a sort of "H" into it so you could open the cover if necessary.

Huge!

with all of these additional "loads" on the grid, it will be a boon for standby generator manufacturers.

With the price of labor, would it not be cheaper just to redo it all instead of trying to do patchwork and figuring out what was done wrong?

No Permit? Walk away, save yourself a lot of headache.

Would have installed two 40 circuit panels and a spare conduit leading to attic for future circuits. Had to install 3 yo 5 new circuits just for kitchen updates.

Very few need 400 amp you can charge up to 14 vehicles with a single 50 amp circuit.

Nice work, brother. Im a home DYI and do many things myself. I just installed a sub panel to my garage and learned a few things about subs in the process. We all can be electricians if you just educate yourself. Not on youtube either.

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I have a question so I have a 30amp for my hot water heater when the old heater was token out it was leaking at the heat elements and water was every where then it made a pop electrical spark so should i change my breaker for new one .?

Nice job brother 👍 Looks like they tried to bypass the meter and steal electricity. I upgraded my own meter and panel without calling the poco. Just cut the SE lines and reconnect with an insulated splice. 😂 learned it all from CZcams.

B/c they like spending more money for nothing lmfao. They won't even use 100A.

200 amp panel goes a long way when furnace, cooking, water, dryer are gas...

Thank you for the video.

batter up

half up front every time, no exeptions

uhm... is having exposed cable up to code?

I built my home with a 200 amp service. But im not an idiot. We dont need all this bs in a house. My electrrc bills are 100 in the summer and 130 in the winter. Build smart people.

Its not hard to do right yourself. You don't need to hire nobody just don't be an idiot and you will be fine

Interesting video. Went from very scary to a nice job considering what you were allowed (by client) to do. You did explain the need for a proper ground rod. If the client won't pay, client don't get. 👍

IN same cases I agree with you in other cases not.

batter?

Hire an electrician, then do it yourself? I think it's better you hire an English teacher THAN write your own titles. 🤦🤦 Seriously, this is like 4th grade English.

SMH, i do know know which is the worse, and wtf still using SEU for service upgrades or repairs? lol

It's not better.

Power company is gonna love you people😂😂😂😂

My and my 100Amp service with EVs.

400a is stupid for residential. Shouldn't even be allowed.

What's funny is that 25 years ago when I built my house, I insisted on 200A service and the electrician who wired it thought I was nuts. Told him I was paying for it and didn't really care about his opinion. Now 400A is becoming normal.

around here 400amp is impossible without major $$$. too rural too old. even though a 200amp system is standard its pushing your luck on the old primary lines...

Cars charge at night when most other loads are off.

...9000 sq ft is why they need 400 amp service. Electric cars are inherently load shedable. This was even added to the ~2018 Canadian electrical code.

My previous job over two decades ago, the building was constructed in the early 1900's which still had a lot of the original electrical panels i.e. fuse boxes w/ switches for light fixtures. Main panel was 600A 3 phase. Back in early the underground conduit rusted out and or tree roots broke though, water intrusion shorted 3 of the 3 phases blowing the fuses in the utility under street transformer vault. 95% of the power was off, power company came out shut off the remaining feed. The main panel had to be replaced, new feeders pulled in. The new panel was 400A but did the job only high current machine was the fright elevator power unit.

I have 200amp service and have two Tesla Wall chargers (60 amp breaker), a hot tub on a 50 amp breaker, and three refrigerator/freezers. Big A/C unit in Utah’s hot summers. It probably helps that our dryer and range top are gas plus both water heaters are gas. I can see future homes needing at least 300 amp service.

600Amp service on that next project? At that point a 3 phase service could make more sense!

Interesting trend, was not aware of. We built our house in 1982 and I installed a 200 A main service. Our utility has a separate rate for electric water heating so that is another 30A service. House is fairly far off the road so we have a utility transformer dedicated to us, however it is only rated at 10 KVA. Been fine all these years but if and when we get an EV I'll contact the utility for advice. Being retired don't need ultra fast charging.

Piss poor set up ! If a customer were to spend big bucks on a 400 amp service think they would spend a few dollars more for 42 circuit panels and at least one 1" empty conduit from panel to junction box in basement & attic for future circuits. I wired in a custom made house that had natural gas for every thing and owner was a gadget nut who came up with additional circuits every week. Only needed a 200 amp service but installed 80 single pole circuit breakers. Installed a 100 amp sub panel for the 4 car garage and huge attic above the garage filled with pinball machines.

A trough up top or down below would be super helpful in the future.

*QUESTiON* HOW MUCH DOES THiS COST TO PUT THESE OR AN EQUiVALENT SETUP iN AN OLDER HOUSE THAT WAS BUiLT iN THE 1950's? *EXAMPLE BASICALLY REPLACiNG EVERYTHiNG THAT WAS iNSTALLED DURiNG THE 1970's*

That’s insane. If you want or need two 200A panels that’s fine but if you actually need a 400A service you probably can’t afford to live there. People that want electric cars generally are embracing new technology that is more energy efficient and should result in decreased demand in the home. In a home like this actual demand calculations need to be done to properly size things, not the old lazy man’s rule of thumb crap. I installed a 400A VTI unitized 3 phase panel in a R&D lab building several years ago and I ordered it with 12 100A 3pole breakers in it because I needed to feed 12 labs that each had a 100A panel in them. The person taking the order said “you can’t do that, that’s 1200amps and it’s only a 400amp panel”. I asked them why do you sell 200A 42 space panels completely filled with single pole 20A breakers then? Using that logic you would have 840A on your 200A panel. In this house you’re showing it’s very unlikely you will ever have all of the resistance heating circuits, all of the air conditioners, and both car chargers going at the same time.