ok sparkeys, i need advice

aaatraker said:

Questions:

Is the wire underground feed cable {uf cable} or does it run in conduit?
no it's not in conduit

Are you sure it ends in the 100 amp breaker in the garage and not the main lugs?
i ran the wire from the trailer breaker box off a 80 amp breaker (the only 1 i could find at the time) to the panel box in the garage to the main lugs and put in a 100 amp main breaker and wired everything in the garage just as you would as if the power was coming staight from the pole

At the trailer site can you tell which are the hot wires ? the neutral? the ground? For both sets of wires?
yes, the 2 hots have a yellow stripe on them and the ground don't for both sets of wires...... don't think there is a nuetral at that point..... well maybe i'm calling the nuetral ground because if i remember, that wire does tie in to the nuetral bar in the panel box and a plain copper ground wire leaves the box and ties to a ground rod outside

Have you a way of testing the wires before you start working on a connection splice to make sure they are not hot? Do you have a voltage tester?
yes

If you are not sure about any of these questions--- call up your friend tell him you 'll have his favroite beer on ice if he'll come out and tell you the safe way to do it. Good beer and bsing with a good friend not a bad way to spend a saturday afternoon.
yep, this is true

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BrushBuster said:

aaatraker said:

Questions:

At the trailer site can you tell which are the hot wires ? the neutral? the ground? For both sets of wires?
yes, the 2 hots have a yellow stripe on them and the ground don't for both sets of wires...... don't think there is a nuetral at that point..... well maybe i'm calling the nuetral ground because if i remember, that wire does tie in to the nuetral bar in the panel box and a plain copper ground wire leaves the box and ties to a ground rod outside

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I'm thinking having your friend over would be a good option at this point. A nuetral wire has a very important function, and a ground wire has a very important function. Confusing the 2, or omiting one, is not to code & a really bad practice. Could be life threatening.

Not trying to rag on you. I take a lot of shortcuts in my life, I think most of us do. My risk, my stuff, my problem if things go wrong. The problem is, the electric hookup will look & act ok, and some poor unsuspecting person trusting it was done to code will get hurt 10 years from now by your omission. That's the bad part of jerry-rigged electrical hookups. It bites the innocent people. As people continue to do this, no one will be allowed to do any electrical work any more.

--->Paul

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rambler said:

I'm thinking having your friend over would be a good option at this point. A nuetral wire has a very important function, and a ground wire has a very important function. Confusing the 2, or omiting one, is not to code & a really bad practice. Could be life threatening.

Not trying to rag on you. I take a lot of shortcuts in my life, I think most of us do. My risk, my stuff, my problem if things go wrong. The problem is, the electric hookup will look & act ok, and some poor unsuspecting person trusting it was done to code will get hurt 10 years from now by your omission. That's the bad part of jerry-rigged electrical hookups. It bites the innocent people. As people continue to do this, no one will be allowed to do any electrical work any more.

--->Paul

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