I recently ran a new line from my home to my water well pump. The line runs approximately 130 ft from a 20 amp breaker. The line is a 240 volt line to the well and it was installed with a 12-2 wire. So there is just a black, white and ground wire. When the wire gets into the well house it splits and the 240 line continues onto the well pump. Before I ran the new line there was a 120 volt line split off the 240 volt line the wire ran to a 120 volt outlet followed by a light switch run off The same line. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture if how it was wired and I cant remember how to reduce the 240 line to 120. I know this can be done because i saw it this way befire i ran the new wire but can't find how online. I believe I should tying all three black lines together, hook just the two whites together to continue the 240 line to the well, and tie the one leftover white from thr 120 volt wire to the copper ground wire set so there would be three ground wires and the white 120v line tied together. Anyone know?

Hi, I'm about to close on a foreclosed house (built in 1910) and will be doing a 203k loan to do some much needed improvements around the house. One thing the contractor put in there is an upgrade to my 1970/80s Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) breaker panel for the low cost of $2300. :eek: This seems unacceptably high. There are two circuits that are double-tapped but that's easily fixed (I've had two inspectors both have said that FPE can cause issues but right now I do not need to upgrade if I don't want to). My basic load estimates say that I will be more than fine with a 100A panel and max load will be around 70A (930sq.ft house, gas heat/boiler, gas water heater, no AC just a swamp cooler). The wiring in the house was updated with the new FPE panel and all outlets are grounded. Is $2300 absurd to replace the main breaker panel? Looks as if I can purchase a new breaker panel for around $100 (GE Panel with bus bar) add the breakers for some small cost more and have everything installed by me for well under $1000 and have it reviewed by a licensed electrician before energizing the system. Maybe it's $2300 for new panel, upgraded service and moving the panel indoors as opposed to on the side of the house as it is now? Part of what I do for my job involves installing monitoring equipment on power systems (single/split and three phase systems, up to 800A so far) so I understand my way around electrical power systems and will be installing current transducers and voltage transformer in my own panel. tl;dr electrician wants $2300 to replace FPE panel, feasible to do it myself and if so what's required? Thank you