...but I was sick and tired of waiting.
Three different electricians, three different quotes, three different promises of "We'll be out _______ to do the work." Three different disappointments. One of them actually took the effort to wire two of the breakers in the sub-panel, then fell off the face of the earth.
The task was simple: wire the sub-panel for my garage, and connect the wires from the sub-panel to the main panel. I'd bought all of the materials, ran the conduit, fished the wires through; I just wanted someone 'qualified' to do the actual hookup.
So I said fsck it, and did it myself. Using the existing breakers as a guide, and doing a little bit of research on google, I got the job done in about an hour.
The only excitement was when I turned the main power back on, the breaker (200A) immediately blew. Big flash, big
ka-pow! and some smoke. This ended up happening because the HVAV, air compressor, fridge, etc all wanted to come on at the exact same time, and was too much of an initial load for the breaker. I turned all of the individual breakers off, turned on the main, then brought the rest of the circuits on slowly, one-by-one, and it was fine.
The first pic is the sub panel, the second is the main panel. The breaker for the garage sub-panel is the one on the lower-left.
