Moving circuit to second breaker box


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Old 09-17-18, 08:53 AM
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Moving circuit to second breaker box

My house has 400 amp electric service. From the meter there are two 200 amp disconnect/breakers on the exterior wall. Each disconnect feeds a separate 200 amp breaker panel in my garage. I'll call them panel A and panel B. The breaker panels are side by side separated by 16". I want to move one double pole 20 amp breaker from panel B to panel A. It is a 240 volt circuit for my well pump. Panel A has plenty of capacity to support the circuit. My question is this... when I pull the cable for this circuit out of panel B, it will be too short to reach the new breaker position in panel A. What is the correct way to add a few feet of cable to this circuit so I will have enough length to connect it in panel A?
 
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Old 09-17-18, 08:59 AM
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My initial thought is to mount an accessible junction box below panel B, connect the required addition cable in that box and run it to panel A.
 
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Old 09-17-18, 01:09 PM
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Back to the top... looking for comments and advice
 
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Old 09-17-18, 02:13 PM
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That's exactly right. Mount an accessible junction box within reach of the pump circuit cable, and run a new length of the same AWG cable from the panel to the junction box.
 
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Old 09-17-18, 03:17 PM
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Why do you want to move the circuit to the other panel? It is all part of the same service.
 
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Old 09-17-18, 05:16 PM
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If the cable is long enough to just reach into panel A then do the splice inside panel A.
 
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Old 09-17-18, 07:43 PM
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Make the splice in the panel.

Why do you want to move the cable?
 
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Old 09-18-18, 03:49 AM
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Reason for move - I am providing emergency generator power to panel A in the event of power outage. Panel A contains all the 120v circuits for the house, lights, refrigerator, propane tankless water heater, etc. the one circuit I am moving into panel A from panel B is for my well. I can do without dryer, heat pump, etc. during a power outage, but really want to have water.
 
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Old 09-18-18, 04:08 PM
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In that case, just run cables between the panels and splice in the panel.
 
 

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