Electrical Service Line Replacement

so what happened was on the last time I was tell you about my guy I walked away and he actually took this so we're we're to cut it all off well I'm gonna cut it but I'm gonna cut it up there first the killing okay he did only thing he'd be able to maybe kind of before our killer okay so I'm gonna go up in and I've cut the service and mind you this is hot you know okay now hold my tape on here because what's gonna happen when I cut this line this side is still gonna be huh cuz that's going out to the Pope right okay so I want to always hang on to that that's the line with a bullet right yeah okay so that's hot right there so I want to cover him up so now if there's hot why when you cut it it didn't because I didn't touch anything background oh I'll idea we just got a wire okay so now I got a tape like I let it go okay same song second verse I want to get my tape one here you just started I still watching where what I'm touching I want to touch nothing right click you don't want to be the conductor all right okay I'm gonna hold this cut that and now I want to take this up okay all in and I don't get it up here lasting longer let's cut this neutral [Music] okay so now at this point it's done okay okay so now at this point I can do anything I want down there because I did I've cut it okay so what I want to do now just give you a service cable so say you have right now no okay I didn't like about but she has already this neutral wire whoever put that in it's not real close but it's still close to I don't like that I would prefer when you come in come straight in so you stay in the middle and this is why I brought it another meter that sometimes you don't you can't get these loops they freeze you know this is nature connected I never I told you we have to use the right things and the right locations this connectors weather-tight see that big rubber run see you concealed in there I still use Luxio but I don't use it alone so what I do is I'll refine new seal Oh Park but just take it out this is just the connector okay is that because it could get damaged at some point oh yeah you know the sealing rubber ring is good so going in why not put a new suit okay so the next thing we want to do is somebody hand me a great wire over there please it company you get it rolled up it's a certain way that you can okay not so much that wire but the romex the inner wire this right here the summertime is your best friend because it makes it nice and it's pliable if you ever do this in the wintertime keep the wire warm because if not this will crack if you let it lay outside why are you working so in the summer in the winter time let it run into your area your heat until you're ready to use it okay so this is our weather here so deep inhale requires at least two feet of loose wire for the weather here okay and that's this guy right here two feet of loose wire but whether it is right so we put the wire through here and this would happen about a loose wire this part okay so I'm gonna say that's about four cell phone to work with you know now I'm gonna give a little bit more because when you twist the neutral it shortens up okay so take your knife and you score it be careful when you do this cuz no one well you don't want to cut yourself okay it's got this mutual wrapped around it that'll kind of keep you from making their hot wires but you can get a nasty cut to your body to your person if you okay so I just like to do all these little strings and these strings never pull them with your hand to try to break them off no slice right through you you cannot break them with your hand yet to cut so I'll just give a little shrimp make it look neat okay now when you get it to where you need it I'm a screwdriver not tighten this up okay so then you unbraid neutral when you do this there's a trick to that's kind of smart they doing like that we want all this wire we laid out front okay so what I'll do is I'll just gathering it up and I'll push it down in that little blue like that then you get one black piece it goes in there first then you've been a black you've been through it and the other black piece goes on top on neutral first you know so what you have were here this this piece right here is this what this is right here this piece right there or how the neutral yeah okay what I do is take it like this and I just make me a little endeavor and wine if you want to type just like that it works till you get down toward the end and then you just kind of twist it twist it twist it twisted okay then what I like to do just take my license and you guys are going to use these morning any tool in your bag lines of us so this is where my guy and me work together whoever's on my team I'm going to start up the ladder just certain point now DPL says that this cannot be lower than this so this time I want to raise it up to that right there so what I'll do is I'll take it the not stick is in my data so hold it trying to get a smooth start okay then what I'll do whoever is working with me I'm calling Eagle Eye but in her case I don't want to make new holes so I'm going to kind of swing my service cable over whoever's on the ground hold that cable up there you go take the way to waiting of it all for me put a little bend in it so that I want my webbing here to be straight up and down I'm putting new straps I'm not using the ones that were there I could actually go insane gonna follow the same path that is on that just so we all we do it for all intents and purposes when you're running this you want to make sure you're running it in at an angle that's gonna come straight down out it's better on a zigzag here or whatever price you can make it like that because we have a slanted roof but yeah you want to try to come a traitor's you can do whatever water to get that flat down the reason why I put the screws on the bottom the sole build the weight is born against the screw and not against the clamps if that makes sense okay so at this point I don't want to strap in no more if I got to get it in the box so I take a measurement just a rough angle and what are those things go national counters fire so then it's easier to do this with this out slide this up I are gonna wash up in get that rubber firmly seated before [Music] see how that spins on their home it's right there so I'll do this before I walk down yeah I'll get back that's just a little actual to keep the ceiling up this stuff really never gets hard drive down you will see just around you see what that looks like so what you want to do is have a title I've seen it over it like all over the years but tiny little widen stuff yeah same thing applies to here huh right now one thing I'm going to show you don't this is that you notice one is black and one is red okay that doesn't mean anything today for us but it would mean something if I was running two lines in parallel because I would want to make sure I don't cross the cases so by this being reared I know this would be a red face just made my black face so you would never put a red and black together or vice versa so that's why they color them for phasing but this is only one one thing we're doing and we don't have to worry about phasing on this well what I will do is if I was changing this piece I would put red with red and black with like just for aesthetics okay so we got that so we're just basically Bend that back in there get a rough measure yet take our lines like I said you gonna use these lines much more than anything good I'll get some my EOCs you have to use this all the going all connections anti-corrosive yeah anti-corrosion deoxidizer so get it coated real good don't be afraid to use it inspect just love to see tons of that stuff and then get that back top in there so the clamp is trip Sultan yeah it's got the okay now if you notice that middle clamps is different than the outer clamps see they got that little tip on there those are called bypass horns so the purpose of those a DPL had to come out let's say they had to take Chris meter and work on it they would clamp a wire from top to bottom on these bypass horns to let keep her power on it's not like she impaired bill so they're not cutting her off they just service in her meter that's what those bypass forms of that so that's what they put them on and that's you have to have them on there that's a cold requirement so basically I'm just going to look kind of eyeball that and what I'll do is I'll cut it a little long I'll lay it in there okay I see I'm a little long so I'll come back and I'll just trim it a little bit does it have this together no you don't want it sticking out because you don't want their live parts that's clear that's perfect just now remember when you trim this you got to trim enough off so there's no insulation up underneath that screw that won't do her no good if this screw is on the installation it can't make contact did you say doesn't matter who the black hole it is on what you decide no that doesn't matter so see my lawyers at the bottom but it's not sticking way out my new true is dead in the middle I can't get any closer or further from either side than the middle so then I'll do the same thing over here my first cuts are always going to be long I can cut it but I can't stretch it [Music] just kind of go around it a little bit you're not gonna cut the wire this is not gonna cut a little no you don't gotta worry about nicking on this point out so how is it that the neutral wire before you pull it out from what the last guy did how was that oh here's mine yeah here's missing a lot longer and it was closer to this hot over here it was closer to the right I want my neutral to be in the middle that's just like he had too much in there oh yeah too much hair and just kind of wasn't watching where his neutral landed I mean it wasn't you know wrong badly wrong but it was just getting close to ya just if you can get it in the middle but in the middle those meters when you wrap the meter around when it clamps around the wire and you test the current order mr. Anthony would that throw off the amperage that would not no no no that wore anything okay it's just just so nothing touched if you can keep it separated looks good looks good you know okay so we've got all that done so now it's time to do the reconnect and this is the part that we do hot live that we have no chance for a second chance [Music] see now why they say they were preferred to all right umbrellas H snap connector that's what we use to you to reconnect page page tax okay now you remember or you know which one coming in because that has to be coming in and going out that has to be right yeah yeah I can see what's coming in because my line is coming from the pole okay Indiana what's that tell you this is the neutral of first the news was always the last to be cut and the first to be connected so you take your H tap and close it around one side so you basically just it's like a splice right okay that's the same thing deep inhale do when they come out that reconnection line okay knife right here life is on top of the box thank you I will spin some wire and we gotta have beer water hookup Jim okay so so far everything I've done we've been super safe but here's where it gets a little hairy so I'm gonna move this neutral out of my way remember these wires a lot don't what's your dream right now are they bright in I keep braiding back to the wall Newsome you know just so it's not angling out me there all right so once again I got too much I'm gonna cut this now I'm in the hot zone I'm going to cut this wire now my dis is hot from the pole so I'm watching what I'm touching see that bear scope with a parent aluminum yeah if I let go and that touch something meadow it's gonna be a kaboom don't do that or if they tend to me I'm gonna be down there with child yeah we don't have to call the ambulance after that so I'll keep one hand on that at all time like a snake naughty always hold your head when you're handling this is the snake so keep doing this is the head so always hamburger I'll put that on there but the one that's not live in reason why I want to get a crimp on there because I don't want this to pop out on me Tech so you gonna put the object on there after you do it absolutely so I want to get enough crimps on there are no good tight still got that snake in my hand right you ain't gonna let go now clear ethically I know I'm the wire stiff enough it ain't going nowhere but just to make a practice of ESA I'm safe on that that's one I still have the utmost respect for this part of the electrical job because this is one of things you can't never do it or not that you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the owners why I do that one first cuz it'll hold it because just one oh yeah right this one's coming down so deep Anil says you have to squeeze at least three times okay these three times so this the part I'll get my brown man ground person tool tool just to get it out of my hands and I'll pretty much you need one on a neutral no okay that's better that's that's maybe open but we got all reconnected now remember probe when I showed you in the first order we had 250 one volt okay so now I'm reconnected I want to make sure that I give her the same thing that she had before I got 250 125 125 120 for love we lied so we got each leg connected I showed you both legs together it's 250 and then I showed you each leg one at a time okay 250 as it goes across trollface and then if I go from one to the neutral that's 125 and then if I go from one other leg to the neutral that's 144 all right see so I'm welcome again both on the other get the rigid black is 250 okay so this is a 200 F buck this is a 100 amp service at 250 volts how do we tell if is on 100 m mark service because in a meter socket and the wire size okay so I'm gonna put the meter back here always make sure that main breakers off which we knew it was because she turned it off and then we'll start at the bottom where it's not lie and always good attention just because is that okay this is all that together you can actually turn the main breaker back on

Channel: Dexter McGhee

Views: 100,506

Rating: 4.6450891 out of 5

Keywords: electrical, electrical service line, electrical service cable, electrical repair, electrical training, mcghee electrical training class

Id: Gtb6QCEjqIg

Length: 37min 56sec (2276 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 17 2019