Relocated Utility Service Drop 200A "Through-The-Roof" Mast Service
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- In this video, PSEG makes a new service drop to our new mast service. Also in this video I show you how I rewire the transfer switch and connect our new feeders and ground everything properly. Bonus footage: taking down the old 200A service and discarding it.
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Great shoutout to the lineman. 🎉 31 yrs out in the field. My upmost respect for electricians in the field also. Both sides of the house we all have to stay safe every day.👷
Absolutely and 100%!
I was JUST about to go to bed, but I guess I’ll watch this one😅
Same
You've been a fan for quite awhile. Thank you!
@@electricianron_New_Jersey since the beginning Ron, I appreciate all your contributions!
I thought that riser was going to come down easily; but, I was wrong. I could feel your frustration.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
That's a nice bit of scrap copper in the old riser $$$
@ 3:38 Be careful with those metal filings as they could become a vector of a potential short in that enclosure.
Great work as usual Ron
As always Ron, great video and content. Best regards from Chicago
Nice work, Ron. After you're done the connections, you think the demo will be simple. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for recording and posting this Ron - nice to see your quality work. And appreciate you noting the relocation of the main bonding jumper from the "old service disconnect" (i.e. the transfer switch) to the new main disconnect outside!
Great job as always.I can't imagine how heavy that 32 foot fiberglass ladder must be!
@@pawelelektryk2985 it’s top heavy. Probably 100 pounds or so.
Never seen a oscillating tool to cut wire lol always learns something from Ron
@@Claritin24 just use a metal or bi metal bit.
Ron - you earned your bucks on this day!!!
That was a tough one......A lot of work ! Nice job...
Thank you Ron for your videos!
Just pulled 40' of 70 amp nm cable to an air handler we installed and it was short by a foot. We just added a equipment discount on the machine and added another foot from the discount to the terminal block. Close call but looks like it was meant to be.
I always like to say, "Wire is Cheaper Than Time". If you gotta run it twice it costs twice as much.
Idk if this suggestion would help.. but i think you could possibly utilize a pulley mounted on the ladder with a rated rope/cabel to assist in mast removals.
Just as long as it's safe and doesn't shift the center of gravity for the ladder.
I measured and ran some 10 gauge THHN in conduit to a receptacle and was short of reaching the subpanel . Fortunately it was inside a garage, so it was easy to add wire and a box for the splice. I should have pulled a string through and measured that before I got the wire.
I’m still awaiting when you announce Milwaukee Tools has given you some tools🤘🏻
Good job Ron.......
Ron, these are the good old days...only 99 deg -- feels like 109. They say in the future we'll see 105 in the NE.
Ain't it great when the utility communicates their intents to you? 😅
Also, the lineman sure has his bucket laying-hard down on the CATV cable (below the secondary) while he's making his terminations. Bet the cable co. appreciates that. 😂
And when he's all done, the new drop is sure sagging/pulling the secondary down & out. I dislike mid-span connections for that reason...
Otherwise, nice job!
Just curious, would it be ok to leave the old weatherhead and conduit in place? Put a blank in the meter enclosure to keep the rain out.
The whole point of this job was to remove the service from the front of the house.
Great videos! Are you looking for a person / team to help you run your permits?
@@adina3996 No.
Did you end up installing a guy wire? I didn't see it and I was told I need to install one at my place when I upgrade to 200amp service
If it’s higher that 4’ above the roof.
@electricianron_New_Jersey ok. I think in oregon it's anything above 24"?
I really don't want to attach anything extra to my roof. I had the meter spotted and they called it to be 3' above the roof and with a guy wire.
We gave you a shout-out on my last long form video!
@@Simonelectricfl I’ll have to check it out. I haven’t been too active on UA-cam this week.
Is the service mast conduit 2" or 2 1/2"? It looks like 2" but PSEG Long Island requires 2 1/2" galvanized steel for structure supported service masts here. Have you ever done a service mast where you were required to use a 1/2" through bolt into the interior wall? I have a brick house and being told I have to use a 10" long by 1/2" bolt all the way through the sheathing and lumber like a fish plate to support the conduit of the overhead service mast. I've searched UA-cam, but have not seen one performed yet. I'm a newly licensed electrical contractor and seeking to do my own home as my first service. My fulltime employment is industrial grade electric, so I've never done a residential service.
See the description area of this video. There’s a link to PSEG installation guide.
At the 4:17 mark you state that this is a service rated ATS and all your bonding takes place here. Later you unbond at the ATS. Then you mentioned you added grounding electrodes to a previously installed service disconnect. I'm confused. Did you bond at the service disconnect?
The meter main is the service disconnect. The ATS was the service disconnect previously. The 2020 NEC added the requirement for an emergency or service disconnect being located outside of a dwelling. Now the grounding electrode conductors have to be brought to the service disconnect outside, and the neutral and equipment grounds have to be separated in the ATS.
First point of disconnecting means is where bonding of the neutral and ground should take place.
You're correct in your assumption as this is exactly what he did.
@@YaksAttack If the meter main is the service disconnect why doesnt the grounding electrode wire go there?
@@TheTubejunky First means of disconnect after the meter? Isn't the meter the first point of disconnect?
If it contains the service disconnect then yes. However some power companies don't allow access to electricians to the meter enclosure only under permitted access.
What's the solar panel on the pole for?
Sign.
What size was the triplex run by the power company? 1/0? Thanks.
@@Bob.W. #2 aluminum
@electricalron Thanks. Seems typical for the power company. I had a drop feeding two 200 amp services (main house and carriage house) and Excel wanted to leave it #2. I had to beg them to put up heavier wire.
Yes it's convenient for emergency people to disconnect service. Also very convenient for thieves.
You need a padlock.
They can just do easy pull the meter the disconnect is because it’s not good for the socket to do it underload
Many utilities now require a residential service upgrade to 200 amps eliminate the overhead service drop. You must pipe down the pole, underground, to the meter pan. Overhead laterals are becoming too expensive for the utilities to maintain. The utility dictates the drop, not local code.
@@bills6946 the good thing is I only have to be concerned with two utility companies: PSEG, JCPL. Overhead service drops are not going away unless you want to go underground and then you pay for that work, not the utility company.
@@electricianron_New_Jersey
Correct. What I am stating is, the utilities are phasing out overhead laterals and yes, the customer pays the electrical contractor to install from the weather head at the pole to the meter pan. It is not a request, it is a requirement.
So glad we don’t do midspans around here. Such hack jobs and causes all kinds of issues all to save a bit of money on wire
@@nickk05281982 around there they probably don’t know how to do them the right way.
i know you can't speak for PG-E but i wonder why they did a center span tap so close to the pole..?
I'll jump in here and say that to me it looks like the drop from the pole would be at a bad angle - maybe too close to the structure, or avoid being above that lower roof - so they wanted closer to a 90 degree angle.
Be easier to pull the wire out of the old service then cut the pipe. Picture the inside of the pipe the wires rattle around and vibrate back and forth because they are moving, they don't cut well.
That’s true but pulling large conductors out isn’t always a picnic either.
Leave the straps, cut then remove mast from straps? Maybe another method of attack.
Hey Ron, check your email, the girl from Milwaukee is trying to get in touch with ya.
I saw that email. Thank you.
happen to me more than I like to say, but for me it's cat5 wire...
What could be worse than the wire being one foot short? The wire being 6 inches short.
@@keithb2696 true story!
“Me” At this point I’m frustrated then the reciprocating saw falls from the top rung and hits me in the head…. My luck some days
You have to be willing to let go before it hits you in the head.