"Metspitzer" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:24:54 -0400, "RBM" wrote:

**He would have to find the guts, and the cover, to fit the existing box.
The box he has is huge, but I doubt you can find a retro fit for it. He
also has to determine the size of the entrance cables. The current fuse
box
is a split buss, 150 amp, but those SE conductors don't look like 2/0 to
me.
He may wind up with a 20 circuit 100 amp panel, which will be considerably
smaller than what he has

Oh and the service entrance cable. I suggested that the owner of the
house stop by the supply house and talk a guy into giving him a 6 inch
piece of #2 aluminum and we could compare it to what he has.

He is a carpenter, but he works for Cleveland Electric here in
Georgia. He should be able to get a small piece before we go any
farther.

**I love that: I only want to talk to the guy that says what I want to
hear... Don't we all

**It's going to be hard to make a comparison unless he gets a piece of #2
from an SE cable. In a standard conductor, the individual strands are round.
In an SE cable, they're actually flat on the outside circumference. If you
look at it cross sectionally, it's like a solid round core of aluminum