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I'm sure it been talked about many times, but in a search I can't find quite the same issue. POCO power is on a 50A breaker at panel. I want to have a generator hookup where I turn off the main breaker, flip on the gen breaker. All works in my head except for the neutral. Can the gen and POCO...

I have a 240vac pump motor that currently has a starter attached. Long story short, the starter shorted out on the enclosure causing a smoke condition. So two questions, can I hook the motor up directly, bypassing the starter, to see if the motor still works? Second question, if the motor...

Long story short, have 2 00 from meter psnel to barn. In plastic conduit, but not buried. Have same gauge SER sitting in barn waiting for install. In mean time, have an 8 gauge SO cord from wall junction box to garage panel. (I know, I know, but I needed lights :) Been in for a couple of...

Just picked up my 12 gauge counter tops tonight. Fit is real good but these are real stained. Any thought on cleaning them up some? Wire wheel, sandpaper, chemical, ??? About 22'. Don't know if they are hot or cold rolled - but the price was right. Will be a working counter but would like them...

From the service to the building I have 2/0-2/0-2/0-1 URD in buried conduit. Now I need to get 100' feet into the building to the elec panel. If just use 2/0-2/0-2/0-1 SER without conduit, what do I need to do for protection? Just common sense? It will be in a steel barn. Thanks

Is there any issues with a double breaker? From the service I feed a panel that has a 100 breaker. From that breaker the line goes 300' feet to another panel with another 100 amp breaker and from there 150' to the actual distribution panel. Besides having an extra 100 amp breaker, there a...

Shopping for a 100 amp 2 pole breaker for my Homeline box. The few that list wire size usually have max (if any listed) of 2/0. My run requires 3/0. So do I go with a bigger breaker (125a?) that hopefully will take a 3/0? Go with 2/0 and hope it doesn't overheat? or ...?

Going to be pulling about 400 feet of 2/0-2/0-2/0-1 through conduit with 3 or 4 45* sweeps. Was thinking of using 2" or would 3" really make things any easier?

School me, please! My new service is about 625' from the house. I put the required ground rod and ground wire in at the service area. Since this is quite a distance($$), can I omit the ground wire in the underground conduit and simply put another ground rod and wire in at the house panel? Done...

Not who, what what determines the amperage to a service. Is it a PoCo transformer adjustment, the cable from transformer to meter? Meter base? Meter itself? Must be something stopping someone from simply drawing say 200amp from a stated 100amp incoming. Inquiring minds want to know! Thanks

My barn has 4'x2' galvanized studs on 4' centers. Plan tomorrow is adding some shelving at the 7' level, I am planning on going with heavy duty shelf brackets with 20" wide 3/4" plywood 8' long shelves. Several concerns: One being will the plywood warp at 4' OC? Could add a 1x strip to mitigate...

Pretty much decided on 3/4" loop of copper for my airlines. Is there a substantial difference (besides price) between Type L, M and K for a 150psi system? Will I have issues using the thinner Type L?

What could possibly happen if I had, say a 60 amp POCO line into a 60 amp box. How ever, I was drawing an actual 75 amp off the box (or trying to). Most likely and worst case

I have a situation where I have a ceiling light, using a pull chain on/off. I really want to put a 'normal' light switch in but it will be almost impossible to route the hot from the light fixture to a switch. Years ago it seems I remember x10 being able to do this. I guess with a battery...

Anyone know how much concrete you can take off by grinding BEFORE you hit aggregate?

When using MC, do I have to secure the cable within 12" of a box like when using NM? If so, what would I use?

Starting on the wiring of my 36x48 garage. Lights are all in and now on to 120v receptacles! Question is I am not sure how many circuits to allocate for this. The walls are on the 48' sides while the 36' ends are almost all doors. I am thinking of running two 20A circuits down one wall and...

Typical old metal cabinets (but lots of them!). I am leaning toward Rustoleum Hammered , rolled on. Should I try to go to bare metal, prime, wipe and paint? Or just a wipe down with some sort of thinner and paint? Thanks

My barn has 20' ceilings. In the process of installing about 30 4 tube, 4' t8's at the 12' level. The original concept was to simply use the old chain hanging technique, but it looks a little messy. Now to get power to them I need to use run MC cable. What the heck do I do, install the cable at...

I have a 36x48 metal building that is being constructed. I am going to be studding the interior for sheetrock (metal is 4'OC). Question arouse as to interior wiring. I have always understood that a metal building needs conduit or BX, but seeing as how it will have wood studs, can I use NM...