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Examine Individual Unit Metering and Distribution

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What happens here

Proceed to examine the existing metering and distribution system for the individual residential units. This typically consists of rows of meter pans, each connected to an apartment. Observe the individual circuit breakers associated with these meters, which in this case are 90-amp derated breakers. Pay attention to how the Service Entrance Unarmored (SEU) cables are routed and secured, noting any cable management systems like unistrut, which helps keep everything tidy. The electrician points out potential quality issues, such as a misaligned panel cover and a misspelled label ('spear' instead of 'spare'), indicating the importance of professional workmanship and adherence to standards.

Goal: Understand the distribution of power to individual units and assess existing installation quality.

Tools and materials

  • 90-Amp Breakers — Circuit protection for individual units
  • Main Disconnect Panel — To disconnect the main power supply
  • Meter Pans — Housing the electricity meters for individual units
  • SEU Cable — Distributing power to individual units
  • Unistrut — Supporting and organizing electrical cables

What they say

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from the outside transformer. Now, if you pan over here, you can see all these meter pans. Now, you're able to have all these meter pans with their individual breaker. You can see they're are 90 amp breakers. They're all derated. The reason why you can do that is because of this right here. This says main disconnect. Let's open this up. Now, right away, I can tell this is not a union job. I can tell right away that this is not a union job. Why? That concerns me because look at this cover here. Look how that is not level, not square. There's no way that would should been left like that. Okay. The other clue is, and I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm not picking on you. I'm just making, you know, people call me and say, "Hey, why can't I get more commercial work? What do I need to do?" Now, look, if you look in here, I looked at this. Someone didn't even know how to spell spare. They wrote spear. Okay? Now, I'm not picking on you, but if you are, if English is a second language for you and your team, just make sure you Google how to spell things. It's important that you represent your company. Right. Now, let's look at this and see all this SCU cable that's coming through. Now, you can see there's a home run for every single apartment that's here. And they did a nice job putting this unit strut up to keep everything nice and neat. They did a nice job here. It's just very dusty. It's been done a while ago. And uh this is this is a nice job. This is all seu. I would do it again. I wouldn't have it like this. Now, what we're going to be doing is

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