Electrical Upgrade Continued…
April 17, 2008 – 7:04 pm
Today I ran the “Big Ass” cable to the main electrical panel that powers the house. Let me tell you, aluminum cable does not want to bend at a 90 deg. angle (see conduit to the left of the electrical panel). I had to make two of these bends. Running cable this big is not fun.
I also had a “Oh !@#$” moment. If you look at the length of the new cable as it turns up from the left side of the panel to the right, you will see the length as I had cut it after pulling the cable through the attic. This length was too short at first. I had to pull all of the available slack in the attic to get this much. It will just barely be long enough to terminate to the circuit breaker. This is especially embarrassing to me because I do this kind of stuff on widebody jet airplanes for a living. Don’t know what the hell I was thinking. I’m lucky.
I doubt that I will get to do anymore until after the weekend as I am going on a motorcycle trip to see the “Honda Superbike Classic” AMA motorcycle race in Birmingham AL. I will post some pictures of the race if anyone is interested.
Good Times!