Recent content by Parke

Sorry, I have no idea why the pics are sideways.

New happiness: 42 spaces with a generator interlock kit installed (and generator inlet plug installed outside) and plenty of room to permit remodeling a 43 year old kitchen and to add a few other lines.

So, before and after pics: Old hot mess: 20 space panel with 19 occupied. 11" wide box which leaves no room left for the gutters. The craziest thing is that once I removed the service cables, I found a sticker in the back of the panel identifying the box as a QON 20-40 MG200 Series L5 and...

Ta Da!!! mm08822 persistence has solved the problem. I finally did something smart and measured the depth of the recommended hole from the bar to the sheathing. It happens to be 1/8 inch deeper than the screw is long (1 1/2 vs ~1 7/16). So the next smart thing I did was get a bigger screw...

Anton, yeppers. The sheathing is visible at the back of that hole. I tried the screw there a couple of times with no luck. But, since you asked, I took another gander and even though it looks like some kind of interior lip at the panel, the screw just bottoms out on the sheathing without...

Thanks for the observations. You need the bonding screw installed at green circle That hole bottoms out on the plastic base of the bus mount. There are no threads inside to hold a screw, and unfortunately, it is also to small for the green screw provided. There is a square hole above the round...

Close up of the neutral, ground buses and main breaker. There just isn't a hole to fit the screw that goes through to the panel on the junction bar or on any of the buses. I'm thinking the screw is for some oddball case if someone uses the panel for a sub panel and disconnects the existing...

Picture of the outside meter box

Pic of the new panel hopefully attached

Zmax, are you saying under the screw hole is located under the main breaker?

There is an exterior meter box, which when the meter is pulled the house is de-energized. Does that count as an outside disconnect?

It is the main panel (which of course has the main breaker for the house). So I will install the screw. So the silly question is where? It is not obvious as the screw doesn't appear to be long enough to reach the box from the neutral bar.

I am replacing an old Square D 200 amp 20 space panel with a new Square D 200 A, 42 space panel, both QO series. The new panel came with a large box bonding (green) screw with the comment "When it is required to bond the box to to neutral, use screw on this card." My understanding is that...

Thanks for the responses. My first thought is, well that just saved me a lot of trouble. Mucho gracias. My second thought is, I think I need to ge back and re-read some references. I had it pretty well set in my mind that certain larger -motored tools, e.g. tablesaws, larger jointers...

I'm taking my little garage shop to the next level by converting a few tools to the 230/240V configuration, (from 115-120V) which requires 230-240V (250V) circuits. I got snagged previously for not having tamper resistant (TR) 120 V 20 amp receptacles. But as far as I can tell, there are no...