Monday, March 15, 2010

Pulling wire




So here we are at the main panel. Above my head is a spool of aluminum wire which will carry power to our house. The smaller cable is the ground.




Kristi and Bill at the sub panel. This is over 200 feet away from the main panel. The way we did this is as follows. First, we use a shopvac to run jetline through the conduit. Jetline is a lightweight, but very strong cord. Once that is through we cut it and tie a rope to the jetline and pull that through. Now that the rope is through, we attach the wire and cable. This is where the equipment comes in. The wire is very heavy, so Kristi would pull about 5 feet at a time as I guided it through.




 Conduit at the sub panel after pulling the wire

Installing the sub panel. 

So 2001

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