bull; your the only one to mention that one and boy is that the truth on the unlimited available amperage. You got +10 points on that reply.
bull8042 said:
They can and very well may kill you.
Well you can't protect everyone from themselves or their actions besides there is the Darwin award for many.
This is another one people take for granted that the average homeowner believes an electrician is just a overpriced repairman. Did you ever think we might have many years not counting the 5 year minimum apprenticeship program government regulated in the trade besides yearly required minimum hours of continuation educational classes? These classes are required by state law to maintain our state certification license as a electrician, not only apprentices but all the journemen in the trade thruout their time in the trade. I would like to see many other people after hours of construction in class from 5-9 pm after a days work and yes it could be a code class as it changes all the time as much as tax laws change every year for H&R block people to study up on.
Then there's that dirty word to many that is ignored as they know better and are above it called the NEC code book. This we must learn and have almost memorized end to end not just any one part of alone plus the added features of a new updated one with more changes added every three years. These new added items must about be memorized also as your not paid to sit on your ass reading the code book when a building is going up. Checking a section or item in the book yes and we carry it with our tools all the time. So in a way it is our bible without getting some religious person worked up on me mentioning the word Bible here.
As far as service changes I stayed away from "ding bat" work, mostly industrial and some commercial for variety change. I switched from 100 to 200 amp years ago. Cut the service drop to the house, used big clip on's with a 40 amp breaker on the drop cord tapped to the service drop for power to do all the work on the service change plus keep part of the house hot like the refrigerators. Removed the old surface mounted panel, installed the new and wired up everthing. Split bolt reconnected the service drop. Piece of cake. Oh later went down and filed for a permit and had it finaled after the city upgraded the service drop size and pressed new sleeves. I had the panel loaded with breakers from the company plus the company supplied the 2" rigid conduit that I already bent and offset ahead of time. Hell they gave me the feeders from the drip loop to the meter.
Done venting no replies necessary as i'm still only a "visitor" one this HBT forun by one member.