How to Assemble a Temporary Builder’s Service

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1. Screw electrical bushing onto conduit and then into TOP hub of meter base and tighten.
2. Attach hub to the panel and screw the nipple tightly into the hub.
3. Remove the 1-1/4" knockout at the bottom of the meter base. Using a 1-1/4" locknut on each side, secure the 1-1/4" nipple to the meter base. A plastic bushing should then be screwed to the top of the nipple just inside the meter base.
4. Push the wires down the top of the conduit leaving two feet out the end.
5. Attach the black wires from the weatherhead to the top two terminals of the meter socket. Connect the incoming neutral conductor to the meter neutral buss. Identify the neutral wire by striping with white tape at both ends.
6. Connect the two black wires from the panel to the bottom meter terminals. Connect the neutral wire between the panel neutral buss and the meter neutral buss.
7. Snap the top off weatherhead. Clamp head onto conduit. Bend wires over and snap top onto the head.
8. Remove a 1/2" knockout. Connect the offset nipple to the panel with a 1/2" locknut. Screw the other end into the hub or the weatherproof outlet box.
9. Install the GFI circuit breaker. Run a wire from it to the outlet box. Run a white wire and a bare copper wire from the ground bar to the outlet box (hook the white through the GFI).
10. Install the receptacle after connecting black wire to a brass screw and the white wire to a silver screw and the bare wire to the outlet box with a ground clip AND to the green screw of the receptacle.
11. Install the weatherproof cover.
12. Remove another 1/2" knockout. Install the loom clamp. Run the ground wire through loom clamp and connect it to the ground bar. Tighten the screws of the loom clamp.
13. Drive 2 ground rods flush with the ground.
14. Hang the service panel on post fastening through back of panel. Strap conduit to post with the pipe strap.
15. Connect the ground wire (continuous with no breaks) to the ground rods with the ground clamps.