Hi, this is Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric. Here in Denver, Colorado. Want to show you a real cool trick to helping prolong the age of your home. I do suggest to not do this at home. It is dangerous. Have me or a professional do this for you because there is no way to turn off the power. The only way to pull off the power is to pull the tag on the meter, which you aren’t supposed to do unless you have a permit and pull the meter. I do not suggest doing that because I don’t even do that. I have to have a permit to cut this tag according to most power companies jurisdiction. Today, I want to show you about Aluminum feeders. It is okay to have Aluminum feeders in your house, still to this point, which feeds from the meter to this breaker right here, which is your main disconnect. In this panel, I can see a little bit of heat going on that is because the Diox right here, keeps it cool, which has gotten really pasty. So again, this is hot and I have really good gloves, so I don’t get shocked. This has to be cleaned off and once that is cleaned off, it allows it or the electrons to flow cleaner. I use a really good mixer. This is my secret mixer. I can’t tell you my recipe. In here, I have a couple of compounds I use and I re-dip this for you. Again, this is hot. It is 240 volts going on between here and here. That is about the only way to do it. I slightly and gently push this back in and gently push this back in. That’s it! Turn that back on. What that does is allows the aluminum to expand and contract based upon ambient temperature, how much current is running on it, as well as the fact your panel might being sitting right in the dead sun getting beaten on all year. This keeps the aluminum feeders cool. Kind of neat about polarized glasses is you can see a little bit more with them. I can see a little more heat stress here and the lugs have not gotten totally discolored but they have changed a little bit. Sometimes you can see one verse the other. If you start seeing plastic melted or insulation, you are pass that point. By that point the threads are bad and you can’t redo that. This is a preventive maintenance. Typically, this will keep your breaker going for another 20 years. We do those preventive things for you.
