How installing a 200 AMP Service looks like in New Jersey for a Resi Home,Prepping the Wire #advice

And this is what you should be doing as an apprentice. Okay. Wow. You want 3 ft coming out of the service entrance head. 36. Yep. Somewhere around there. Yep. You don't have to be exact, but just cuz you're new, you take your knife and go right along the center of it. Yep. Nice and light. You're just scoring that thin jacket on that service entrance. Spiral that. You get it completely off. Always want a clean work area. See, I'll hold this. Pick up those little tails. Nothing worse than having tools and materials all laying around. Throw everything right in there as you're going. I'm going to unwind it. Okay. You can see how you can make a conductor. Why they do it like that? Why is it not just the third conductor? Because it's actually using it to protect the wire. This is like an armored jacket around that plastic jack. Oh yeah, that is right. Take your hand here and start kind of bending it out and making a wire out of it. Right. Got it. Yep. That's it. Give it a little spin with the channel lock. Grab it right on the end here. Let go with this hand. Now spin it around. for this. Yeah, that's it. Oh, I see. Okay, now it's nice and tight. Yeah, good. Now, this little part you can cut off. Now, let's talk about the weather head. Taking a screwdriver and you're going to pry this carefully. It's just press fit right here. Got it? So, this you can do to the side. Now, you're going to slide all three conductors. Yep. Now, just slide it all the way up. Got it. Now, you want to let go of this. You want to put that over top of the clamp. See how it's coming out? Oh, I see. I see. Cuz now the clamp will grab the insulated jacket. And now these guys, one at a time, get folded down. Oh, okay. I see. Okay. All right. Yeah. And now you tighten up that clamp. Got it. I have my flathead. You got to learn to use a bigger screwdriver. And that's why the wire is nice and straight now. So when you put that SCU up, you got it nice and straight. Mhm. And this is what you should be doing as an apprentice every time you do a service. Prep it. Prep it like this. Yeah. You could have done that at the shop. Yep. or when you soon as you get here. I snuck your head on. There you go. That's my first weather head. Really? Yeah. You could you could