++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Red Squirrel]

Wine nef.

 

[sdifox]

Did I mention I hate flat head screws. Especially when you have to torque it? Sliced my finger open.

 

[sdifox]

Lol that's insane. That's about what I make in 2 months before any costs of living.

I freak out when mine hits $1,000. It's like "I don't remember buying that much stuff!". I put everything on there though.

Speaking of which I should check if the dealership cashed my cheque. That's going to be a big dent in the credit line lol.

Kids are expensive.

 

[sdifox]

That happened when I tried to put the zinc faceplate on the box. Screw has to line up to socket. Not so easy when you have 8ga cable in box, so socket is a bit crooked.

 

[sdifox]

Tomorrow I'll hook it up to panel.

 

[sdifox]

lol a thousand in costco. All cloth.

 

[sdifox]

and of course it is the first part of my index finger. well at least it is the left hand one.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ouch, yeah working with thick gauge is not fun. Things get really fun when you get into the #6 and thicker territory. #2 gets really fun. I still want to redo all my DC stuff, I did a crappy job of it. I need to figure out where to buy copper bus bars so I can do it right. Worse case scenario I'll make my own using flattened copper pipe, it's just that it's hard to know how much amps I can put through it given it's not rated for that.

 

[sdifox]

Ouch, yeah working with thick gauge is not fun. Things get really fun when you get into the #6 and thicker territory. #2 gets really fun. I still want to redo all my DC stuff, I did a crappy job of it. I need to figure out where to buy copper bus bars so I can do it right. Worse case scenario I'll make my own using flattened copper pipe, it's just that it's hard to know how much amps I can put through it given it's not rated for that.

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[Red Squirrel]

Store Locator | Find A Store Near You | Metal Supermarkets

Find a Metal Supermarkets store near you with access to over 8,000 metal types, no order minimums, and value-added services.

www.metalsupermarkets.com

Those store finders are usually useless. You land on these sites with lot of marketing fluff and no way to buy.

 

[zzuupp]

Ouch, yeah working with thick gauge is not fun. Things get really fun when you get into the #6 and thicker territory. #2 gets really fun. I still want to redo all my DC stuff, I did a crappy job of it. I need to figure out where to buy copper bus bars so I can do it right. Worse case scenario I'll make my own using flattened copper pipe, it's just that it's hard to know how much amps I can put through it given it's not rated for that.

K type copper tube

L is the next , then M. DWV is the thinnest.

 

[zzuupp]

HD or Lowes would be expensive. Your friendly local plumbing supply house would have more. If you don't need that much keep your eyes open in your 'hood for a plumbing truck, they might have scrap to sell for cash and carry.

 

[sdifox]

30A breaker hooked up to socket. I am still alive.

 

[sdifox]

I can has 5kva pdu. Well two of them.

 

[sdifox]

Tested with old athlon 700 and it was powering up

 

[Red Squirrel]

I still need to do the 100a feed to my server room and garage. My server room has a dedicated panel but it's fed by a single 15 amp circuit lol. That was suppose to be temporary. My current main panel is too physically small to fit 2 big 100a feeders into so I need to swap it out, and also surface mount it on the wall instead of flush mount as it will make it easier to run the big feeders. I kinda need to do my UPS upgrade before I do any of that though as it would require at least several hours of no power to the servers while I'm swapping the panel.

I could cheat and just do 40 amps though since that would fit in the current setup, since realistically I doubt I'll ever use close to that considering I'm not even overloading a single 15 amp leg. The server room panel feeds the whole basement and not just the server room though.

 

[sdifox]

Face down mount twist lock, less stress on cable.

 

[sdifox]

My rack will be in same room as breaker panel

 

[sdifox]

Could have used 10ga but decided to use 8ga even if it is just one meter run

 

[sdifox]

The panel is in that cabinet.

 

[sdifox]

I still need to do the 100a feed to my server room and garage. My server room has a dedicated panel but it's fed by a single 15 amp circuit lol. That was suppose to be temporary. My current main panel is too physically small to fit 2 big 100a feeders into so I need to swap it out, and also surface mount it on the wall instead of flush mount as it will make it easier to run the big feeders. I kinda need to do my UPS upgrade before I do any of that though as it would require at least several hours of no power to the servers while I'm swapping the panel.

I could cheat and just do 40 amps though since that would fit in the current setup, since realistically I doubt I'll ever use close to that considering I'm not even overloading a single 15 amp leg. The server room panel feeds the whole basement and not just the server room though.

You need to upgrade cable.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You need to upgrade cable.

Obviously. Issue is there's no room in the current panel to physically do that which is why it's on a 15 amp right now. I would run some 100a teck but need to upgrade main panel first and move it while I'm at it so it's surface mount on the new wall.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is my panel now, not much room to run a conduit or big cable in. At very lest I need to move it so it's surface mount with that wall. Want to do that anyway so I can insulate behind it.



But I need to take all the wiring out of it to do that so may as well change to a bigger one.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is actually a better angle. (just digging up old pics)

 

[Red Squirrel]

I still need to move that dryer vent, it's so awkward the way they did it.