IDEAL National Championship 2019 Pro Finals: Service Entrance Cable, Torque, Panels and Breakers

hi this bill verse parking channel coming to you from the is the Coronado Resort in Orlando Florida and we'll bring you the ideal national championship [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this job site is an extension of an existing commercial building complex the existing utility service drop is a 240 - 120 volt 3-phase for wire delta connected system a siemens 200 amp fused heavy-duty safety switch has previously been installed as the service disconnecting means for this installation the five competitors who you saw step forward to the finals will be required to complete installation of the electrical service for this building extension including all wiring and connections for the grounding electrode system before starting the competitors are given this drawing which shows the 200 amp fused service disconnect that you see on the board and it shows all the other components that they will have to add to the system [Applause] this is Greg Anne occur he's the gentleman who won $75,000 in this contest last year for taking first place in the professional individual competition and the first thing he's done is he's tacked up the drawing onto his board because these needs to work from it now Greg has grabbed his two and a half inch cordless bandsaw and he's gone over to work on his two inch rigid conduit so he's making mark so where he's gonna cut it and he grabs this bandsaw and watch this just put it on your foot like that and cut the 2 inch Ridge for the competition all circuits and equipment should be correctly grounded and bonded and all terminals and lugs will need to be torqued down to the correct torque amount in fact the competitors will have to write the torque amount used next to each termination within the enclosure the competitors will also have to use ideal wire arm or electrical tape to properly identify all service conductors at all termination points to comply with the requirements of this electrical system greg is finishing up cutting the 2 inch rigid and notice the one of these pieces has a connector on the end of it just that the factory and so he's gonna grab a pair of adjustable pliers and he's gonna tap that fitting on the end of the pipe and take it off with the pliers and know who's going to need to ream out they both the inside and the outside of this pipe so he's going to use a file the filing is done to keep the cable from getting nicked and perhaps causing a short the competitors will be working with 100 feet of 3 OTT cable which you see on the lower part of this table [Music] Gregg has now knocked out the appropriate knock out for 2-inch rigid pipe and now he's getting his knockout ready on the other side of the panel as well now Gregg is gonna grab a six inch by two inch nipple and he's gonna get ready to install on the left-hand side of the panel if you remember just to the left of the panel he is to install a meter enclosure then he'll install a two inch rigid service riser and on top of that is a weather head so Greg is getting his hardware together to connect the service disconnect panel to the meter enclosure and this is the six inch nipple and he's got it going through the hole that he knocked out and he's going to be tightening it down to the service disconnect panel and here is he's got his adjustable pliers it got tightened down right now Gregg is working on the 2-inch rigid conduit that's going to connect the service disconnect panel to the main lug only panel a main look only panel is a panel that can be only used when you have an upstream breaker to protect the panel as we do in this situation Gregg is using an ideal 6 inch magnetic level it's an electricians level and he's got it on the rigid and he wants to get it nice and level so he does an excellent job now he's conducting the rigid conduit to a strut that was provided for him those are ideal 12-inch tongue-and-groove pliers and they are made in the USA now he's measuring up for his main lug only panel and he's actually going to have to drill a hole in the side of his panel now he's going to put an ideal TKO carbide tip electricians two and a half inch drill bit on his drill and he's got the spot located where he wants to drill it and he's going to drill in this side of his main lug only panel the bit has a stop built into it so it won't go all the way through the panel and as a spring built into it to help eject a piece of metal that you drill out this is a two-inch Threadless connector for rigid pipe on the other side of the rigid pipe he had the advantage of having threads on his two inch rigid pipe this side there's no threads so this is a Threadless connector now it's time to install the main lug only panel which they call ml o for short it's a mellow panel and it's very very important to secure these panels well and notice that Gregg has a six inch magnetic level on top of the panel so that he gets everything nice and level so he's putting in a screw with a one-inch fender washer it gives better support with the fender washer that way and all four corners will get a screw with a one-inch fender washer and here's the ideal 12-inch tongue-and-groove flyers see there's a lock nut inside the mlo panel and he's tightening that right up so once you notice he's only used one threaded end of the two-inch rigid conduit because he's gonna need another threaded end okay right now he's putting on a plastic bushing okay so that's a plastic bushing a 2-inch plastic bushing that goes on the end and keeps any of their cables from getting Nick but what I was saying he's gonna need another and that is threaded from that 2-inch rigid conduit so he's he's doing this very wisely he's only used up one of his threaded ends the other threaded end will go into a two inch hub that holds what we called a mast and the mast goes up and on top of that is a weather head you see he's got a six inch to inch rigid nipple sticking out of the service disconnect now Greg needs to knock out the two and a half inch knock out to the meter panel and it's interesting to see the way he does it first he loosens up the smaller one the one that's just smaller than the two and a half inch knockout because you have to realize you only get one chance with these the only qu1 meter pen and it's the same thing when you're working out in the field you only buy one of these you can't mess it up so he's loosened up the smaller knockout and now he's getting out the two and a half inches which is what he needs and he'll get both of these out at once it's just really important to be safe when you're doing this and that not boy you don't want to accidentally make a larger hole than you need you just want the right size one so he's working out the two and a half inch knock out which is just what he needs and there it is he's got it he's got it so you guys that do that all the time you know what I'm talking about this things could be a little frustrating sometimes okay so this is the meter enclosure now he's taking the top off of the meter enclosure okay he's gonna go ahead and put it up he's got a lock ring in his hand and he's gonna tighten up the lock ring so you know there's there's only $75,000 on the line here first place gets 75,000 second place hits 25,000 third place gets 10,000 I've been following Gregg in this tournament and he's calm and cool so he's got the the fuses right now those were three fuses and therefore the service disconnect the big very large fuses so he's gonna take those and put them in the service disconnect he will actually install them later and he's cut the six-inch magnetic level on top of this meter enclosure and now he's going to screw in the screws there one in screws with one inch fender washers and he's going to screw them eat into each of the four corners of the meter enclosure okay now this is the hub it always comes in a separate packet and you screw in your two inch threaded rigid conduit into this hub so there's four screws that going in into each corner of the hub and screw those down nice and snug because they have to be waterproof you don't want any water getting into your meter enclosure so here's the fourth screw and now the rigid conduit is four feet long normally the service entrance conduit are masked as we call it it's much longer but for the purposes of this competition it was just before feet long okay he's got that tightened down and he's gonna mark out where he's going to put his two-inch rigid straps and he's going to put a couple of them to secure the mast if you look at these straps you can see that there is a 7/8 inch standoff built into them so this is this is a really good tip sometimes people just put some one by underneath the strap you know a regular strap but these these look much more professional okay here's the second strap through that rate to the board and here comes the masked okay that's a 4-foot piece of rigid em this screwed right in there normally you guys put a little sealant on those threads I do I just put some sealant on there but I guess it's not necessary so he's tightening it right up with those 12-inch tongue and groove pliers okay now he gets the nuts and bolts and secures the straps so that mast isn't rate on the board if you if you ever put a mask straight on the side of a house or a building you're gonna flunk your inspection it needs to come out and these particular straps are really great because they have a built in stand out and Greg's gonna grab the little giant ladder these are really neat ladders and I'm actually going to be coming out with a video about them okay so Greg's got the letter about where he wants it and let's see I guess he's gonna continue tightening up the straps you need a couple good solid straps and you need that stand out boy inspectors really look for that and it's got to be nice and plumb all right I think he's gonna go for the Weatherhead there it is that's the Weatherhead okay now you gotta pop some holes through the plastic part for your cables and he's going to be using three hot cable now when you do this you don't want to stab your hand you know be careful now Greg's putting a bushing on the 2-inch rigid nipple and it's a special kind of pushing because it's a 2-inch grounding bushing this bushing is also a 2-inch grounding bushing now Greg is going to get the panels ready for that three OTT conduit this is what the grounding bushing looks like when it's fully assembled now Greg's gonna get the main love only panel ready for cable and circuit breakers these two three pole breakers will serve 20 amp 240 volt 3-phase motor loads for ventilation fans now he'll install a two-pole breaker for a multi wire branch circuit which will serve 120 volt service receptacles he'll install for one pole breakers to serve 20 amp 120 volt branch circuits for LED lighting Gregg now has an ideal torquing screwdriver in his hand and he's reading the side of the panel because on the side of panel they have the torquing amounts for the various lugs and fasteners that are found in a panel the torquing specifications for the breakers themselves are generally found on the breakers okay so Gregg has set the torquing specification and now he's torquey down all the breakers he's going one after another it's doing it pretty quickly when it clicks then then that's the torquing amount right there now Gregg is moving over to the service disconnect and he'll be torquing down their various terminals there and now the same thing in the meter enclosure Gregg is now writing down in the box the torquing specifications daddy used and here next door here's Seth Agnew and he's got four 3i cables and he's using the ideal ratcheting cable cutter Gregg is now loosening up the lugs to get them ready to receive the three OTT cable now Gregg has grabbed the grounding cable and he's going to be rolling that out and getting it ready this is the three art cable that he's getting ready now and now he's putting the fuses in the service disconnect box [Applause] [Music] [Music] Gregg is working with his first piece of three OTT cable and he's just stripped and end on it now Gregg is grabbing the ideal wire Armour electrical tape in assorted colors and he's going to be marking the three OTT cables with it [Music] the cables that Greg is installing right now bring the electrical energy from the service disconnect to the main lug only panel Gregg is marking these electrical cables with different colors of electrical tape this one he's actually marking with black electrical tape if you can't see that there's some black electrical tape marking both ends of the cable he was just working on now he's working on connecting the ground cable this is the SK 3/8 inch torque wrench it can torque up to 250 foot pounds Greg needs to torque is looks down to 275 inch pounds to convert the inch pounds to foot-pounds you just divide the 275 inch pounds by 12 and you'll get 22.9 foot-pounds which is what his torque wrench is set in so you just set your torque wrench to 23 foot-pounds what's the PSI this SK torque wrench has a locking collar on it that makes it so it won't change value while you're using it so Greg is torquing down these lugs the code that governs the proper torquing of these lugs and connectors in the panel's is 2017 article one ten point one four D [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the target time for this competition is 60 minutes the challenge will be stopped at 70 minutes and points will be deducted from the competitors after the target time the white tape designates a neutral cable [Music] [Applause] now Gregg is bringing the neutral cable to the main lug only box Gregg is writing 375 inch pounds for his torquing specs [Music] Gregg is preparing to run his six gauge ground wire to his grounding rods [Applause] Gregg has stripped off about an inch of insulation from the green grounding wire and he's attaching that to the service disconnect box the speed that the contestants work at is only worth ten percent of the judging the other 90 percent of the judging is the quality of the workmanship how safely the workers work and the general overall professional appearance of the work so even if a contestant doesn't finish all the work he still may win the overall content because of the professionalism of his work now he'll use a corn grounded clamps to clamp the green number six AWG wire to the grounding rods [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] whoa [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good job so here's Gregg's station at the end of the competition and here is Seth station and here's wills station here's Lee's station and here's clays station all of these gentlemen did a great job and really did a lot of work in a short amount of time now it's time for the judges to take over and look at every little aspect and make their decision now speed is only 10% of glue they decide wins and here is the awards ceremony [Applause] [Applause] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the notorious [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'll put links in my video description for the SK adjustable 3/8 inch torque wrench which can torque between 30 and 250 foot pounds and for the SK adjustable torque wrench which can torque between 10 and 100 foot pounds I'll put a link for their ideal magnetic 6 inch electricians level the ideal ratcheting cable cutter the ideal 12 inch adjustable pliers the ideal TKO carbide hole saws and for ideal wire armor electricians tape also put links for tools seen in the previous rounds such as the ideal ductile iron conduit benders and the ideal tracer systems I hope you enjoyed the competition

Channel: Sparky Channel

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Id: PBJepa_n2ds

Length: 67min 47sec (4067 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 09 2020