Hi, this is Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric. We are here in Littleton, Colorado, unincorporated Jeffco. We pulled a permit on this job. We had an issue with an FPE Panel. Everyone hears about this and googles it. This is it. It is a Federal Pacific Electric. The bus bar system here, that the guts of it, it comes out. A lot of the complaints about these breakers is you can’t get them out and when you do, it is how the bus bar system is designed. You can see some over heating that was going on there already. We are changing this out today. It is a fairly long process. These guys have a quite a bit of wires. They have baseboard heating going on, so quite of bit of stuff going on. We had to cut this a little bit bigger. The weather is coming in, so will come back on Wednesday and change this meter with Xcel. That is our day we are supposed to do it, but I don’t want to sit here in the snow. It would destroy the tools and it is dangerous work like that. We are going to get the panel change today. We ran the cold water ground. We are going to run a conduit that later. I will show you. For here to meet code, this is our panel. See how much bigger it is. It has a 200 amp guts on it. It has over 40 circuits as well. It is a full panel. This is not a combo, this is a side by side with a meter and panel. To meet code in chapter 9, table 8, it talks about not having a fill or volume or space allowance for the fill of how many romex can come into these nipples. We want to be somewhere around 60 to 80 percent. I knocked out another knock out with a two inch next to the two and half because as I was trying to pull some of them out, the wires were starting to get all gouged up. It would be a nightmare if things started shorting out at that nipple point. This is where we are at & I will show you when we are all finished up.
