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I like how he used tape on the conductors where it comes through the connectors. The owner must have had safety in mind when doing that. LOL.

These pictures are not the final ones. I still have to go back. These were the 1st and 2nd attempt by the homeowner. The silver wire in the bottom pictures, I think was a CATV wire just hanging around out there. Or else it was a piece of scrap wire holding up the plastic that was covering the service.

I also forgot, he will be using a new pice of 4/0 seu cable to go from the meter pan into the service panel. He is going to remove the individual wires and redo the service the right way. (I hope!)

Why would you fail him on the 3/0 for 200 amp service? This is a dwelling? table 310-15(b)6 seems to allow 2/0 Cu for a 200 amp service. I see the pipe issues, and how he brought it into the panel is horrible, but the size is ok. Is pic 1 nad 2 the same service, seems like copper at the panel and AL at the meter socket.

Trekkie,

I didn't fail him for using 3/0 CU wire, it is just that it needed to be in a pipe. So I told him that he could either put it in a pipe, but his bends would have been very difficult to do. (See pic # 1) I also told him that he could use a 4/0 SEU cable and still be able to make his bend into that service panel. So on the second try, he used SEU AL cable. He just left it in the pipe.