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AFCI is a crock. They are expensive with no appreciable increase in protection. That said they are now a code requirement for any new circuit to a bedroom. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Eaton lists their 100A breakers as taking #10 - 1/0. Having shoved 1/0 in one before I think they are being optimistic. I wouldn't put anything bigger than #1 in a residential (not bolt on) branch breaker but to each his own. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They aren't really all that permanent. You can take them down quickly with a putty knife. That said I leave them. They are 20' off the ground and pretty much same color as my soffits. You have to know they are there to see them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did your construction contractor expose some slab rebar at the location of the electrical panel? If so then you would want to use that as your ground for the sub panel. Search Ufer if you are not sure. On panel sizing the load on the wire is determined by the lower of two things. Either the...

Given that the structures have separate ground planes I have to add my recommendation to go fiber. It can be done cheaply enough and will eliminate many of the maintenance headaches of multi building copper Ethernet (blow LAs, water degraded cabling, blown equipment when the LAs don't do their...

I can guarantee that the transformer fuse will blow for a short in the transformer or between it and your main disconnect. Transformers are usually fused at three times their nameplate rated current to allow for inrush and temporary overload. They will produce about 10 times rated current to a...

I generally use cable ties plus these Install Bay CTM34 Adhesive Backed Cable Tie Mount I have hardy board eaves so any penetrating hanger isn't going to happen

With an install base in the billions I would find it very unlikely that the Edison socket ever goes obsolete.