Today Matt came out to the house and swapped out the cable to feed the new breaker panel & service disconnect. Matt is a commercial electrician in N.Y.C. and a member of IBEW ( http://www.ibew.org/ ), he deals with stuff way bigger and badder than this everyday, so I figured this was a piece of cake for him.
The first think he did was to cut the cable and route the leads to the disconnect switch, he grounded the box to an 8 foot ground rod driven into the earth, and then he bonded the neutral lug to the box also.
Moving to the outside, Matt pulled the meter, disconnected the old cable to the old panel, connected the new cable, put new butyl putty around where the cables enter the meter base, and then re-installed the meter. All done in about an hour and a half.
Flipping on the breakers for the first time with the new box was uneventful, as everything simply worked as it should. This chapter is now in the books, on to other projects.
Fritz
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