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Bending 1000 is like bending rebar!!!!
Hey y'all I am new to the site and just wanted to share.Hope y'all like the pics!
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06-26-2011, 11:59 AM
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Welcome!
Where do you live in LA?
I am in Walker and work out of Baton Rouge.
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06-26-2011, 12:02 PM
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Welcome!
Where do you live in LA?
I am in Walker and work out of Baton Rouge.
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10-4 right now working in slidell
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06-26-2011, 12:07 PM
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Did they spec. GRC coming into the gear? With clearances that close, I would've tried to get PVC so I could run each phase in a pipe. Would've made the termination a lot easier.
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06-26-2011, 12:25 PM
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The biggest I've had to handle is 400..I bet that was a bitch.
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06-26-2011, 12:27 PM
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child please.....
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Did they spec. GRC coming into the gear? With clearances that close, I would've tried to get PVC so I could run each phase in a pipe. Would've made the termination a lot easier.
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Then you got to cut a channel through to each k.o and use aluminum locknuts....If i ask for aluminum locknuts my supply guy would think im nuts.......It would install alot easier though...
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06-26-2011, 12:52 PM
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Then you got to cut a channel through to each k.o....
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It looks to me like it comes through the pour into open bottom gear, that's the only reason I suggested it. It'd be easy.
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06-26-2011, 12:54 PM
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child please.....
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It looks to me like it comes through the pour into open bottom gear, that's the only reason I suggested it. It'd be easy.
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Ahhh yes, you are correct thats an open bottom gear....and boom goes the dynamite.
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06-26-2011, 12:57 PM
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Ahhh yes, you are correct thats an open bottom gear....and boom goes the dynamite.
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Ya everything is to spec it sucked
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06-26-2011, 11:58 PM
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That is a ton of scrap...
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06-27-2011, 12:00 AM
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Anyone know what 1000 goes for a foot?
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06-27-2011, 12:00 AM
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What size is that gear?
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06-27-2011, 12:03 AM
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Anyone know what 1000 goes for a foot?
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600s are about 12 to 13. I'd guess 1000s are about the mid 20s.
I have never used most stuff we see is 600s. Once it is over that it is time to parallel.
That one huge piece of gear though. Looks like 10 or 12 sets. FRICKIN huge...
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06-27-2011, 12:07 AM
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600s are about 12 to 13. I'd guess 1000s are about the mid 20s.
I have never used most stuff we see is 600s. Once it is over that it is time to parallel.
That one huge piece of gear though. Looks like 10 or 12 sets. FRICKIN huge...
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Yeah, I've never worked with anything bigger than 600. The last large company I worked for had a company policy to parallel anything over 600. In the install pictured they are already paralleled and they are using 1000. I don't have the book with me so I can't compute the amperage but yeah, it's huge. That's a lot of fault current. 
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06-27-2011, 12:11 AM
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Can't say as I've ever seen 1000 MCM. Wouldn't be anything I'd spec on my own.
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06-27-2011, 12:12 AM
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Can't say as I've ever seen 1000 MCM. Wouldn't be anything I'd spec on my own.
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The OP's pictures really don't do justice to how massive it is.
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06-27-2011, 12:15 AM
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Wire Ninja
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The OP's pictures really don't do justice to how massive it is.
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If those are standard 40x48 pallets, that stuff looks like it must be 1-1/2" in diameter, or thereabouts.
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06-27-2011, 01:27 AM
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Engineer: oops, probably should have spec'ed parallel conductors
Electrician: ****ING engineer!!!
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06-27-2011, 02:00 AM
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Ahhh yes, you are correct thats an open bottom gear....and boom goes the dynamite.
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Nice tosh.o reference.
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06-27-2011, 04:58 AM
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What a cluster f*ck.
Pretty typical for New Orleans, though.
You don't work for TBI, do you? 
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