Home Electrical(again)

BigBody79

BigBody79

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I'll try to make this quick:

I have an meter panel/breaker box where my power comes into the house.
I have recently added a second load center right next to it. This new panel feeds my pool panel and my shop.
There is an indoor load center that feeds everything in the house this is fed from the meter panel(old)
From the old panel to the house panel I have a three conductor wire: hot, hot, neutral.
On my new load center at there is a hot, hot, neutral, ground.

I want to move my indoor panel from the meter panel to the new load center next to it.
The question is do I go back with a three conductor wire(hot, hot, neutral) or should it be upgraded to a four conductor wire(hot, hot, neutral, ground)?

A secondary question is can I use a junction box to retain the current wire in the house panel and then place a new wire from new load center to junction box?
 
All sub panels should be fed from main panel w/ 4-wire (hot/hot/neutral/ground)
 
There are a lot of gotchas here.

Id want to see all this to keep from telling you wrong. but as @doc said you definitely should use a 4 wire. Make sure you understand bonding requirements and get those right, wrong could dangerous.
Also Id be concerned about over loading the load center if it is feeding everything in the house and the pool sub panel....plus its just a bad design. A shorted pool pump could take out all your house by tripping the sub panel feed breaker.
 
I'm just curious why you'd even want to make this change. Sounds like headache for no benefit.
 
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Panels in question. As you can see the panel with meter is old to very old. New panel is 125 amp panel. Breaker to house panel is 100 amp.

Panel with meter does not have a main breaker. I would like to be able to hook up a generator to inside panel. If I were to move the house panel to the new panel then I would have a disconnect.

At this point I’m just going to leave it alone.
 
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