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Why Installing Commercial Services aren’t easy..Electrician Education #electrician #bluecollar

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This project offers an instructional overview of key components and considerations for a 400 Amp electrical service installation, specifically tailored for commercial applications. A master electrician guides an apprentice through identifying conduit sizes, correct fitting types for wire pulling, voltage characteristics, and wire materials, emphasizing best practices and common pitfalls in electrical work.

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Is this a 400-amp service? Yes. All right. Yeah, I can tell by the conduit. Yes, it's a 4-in, so it's 400-amp maximum in a 4-in. Okay. See right here this fitting? Isn't this not the right fitting? Like the right fitting. This is supposed to be an L LR. Correct. Right? There you go. This is a LB and it's going up like that. That's right. So, why did they do it like that? Cuz that's what they had with them. It's actually okay to do it this way. Okay. It's and it's easier to pull up. So, think about this. So, we've got our line coming in out of the top. We might have fuses here. I don't think it's fused. And then on the load side, we're coming over here with our 5 or 600s. Okay. And then it's going to come up. So, it would have been easier to use this. Okay. With the other way, if you had an LR here, then you could work this way. You could pull a wire out and now you have enough of an opening to pull up. Oh, that makes a lot of So, other than that, it would be be a little bit more challenging. 120 208-V. 120 208-V, which is unusual for a commercial service, right? Why? Usually it would be 480-V, not 120 208-V. Do you think this is aluminum or copper in It's copper. Okay. All right.

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