Denray Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 200 amp panel with these service entrance cables reduced in size to fit the lugs. How should this have been done? Click to Enlarge 82.51 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete moss Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 what is the rating of the main breaker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 Are the SEC's Aluminum and the short connection wires THHN? Where is the main disconnect? Where is Doug Hansen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denray Posted March 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 200 amp main. Click to Enlarge 81.14 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Those are Polaris connectors. They're listed for use with aluminum and copper. If the copper pigtails are 2/0, it's fine. It looks like they were trying to switch to copper so that they could use a smaller wire to bend around into the lugs. Those larger wires look huge, how big were they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denray Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 These are photos from November. I'm sure I didn't measure them and or did not see any I.D. on them at the time. I was just cruising through my photos and thought what the heck. I take like 140+ photos per home. You gonna make me go to my report and see what I put? Looking at it right now I'm like, "What the heck is that". OK, I went to my report and only mentioned the wires being bundled and an electrical contractor should evaluate. I missed this deal till now. Pray for me. But what's up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 I did notice on closer inspection of the picture that the left aluminum wire was marked with white tape but the copper wire marked with white tape was connected to the center wire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Booth Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 I did notice on closer inspection of the picture that the left aluminum wire was marked with white tape but the copper wire marked with white tape was connected to the center wire. hmmmm.......good question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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