Circuit panel install

 Here's the new panel that's going in. Its a Square D QO series panel and breakers.

  Here you go, proof I actually did it myself.

 Much cleaner now that some wires that went no where or were no longer hooked up were removed. You can see the surge protector too, the white rectangle at the bottom of the breakers on the right side. Some more info on it can be found here: http://www.apelectric.com/Square-D-QO-Surge-Breaker-p/qo2175sb.htm, they sell it there too but I found it for less at my local Home Depot. It's meant as part of the total surge solution, I still need to use surge protectors on my electronics, this is supposed to knock the surge down to the level a surge strip can actually handle. Unfortunately while doing this I discovered the only ground my house has is the gas piping which is supposed to be connected to the ground system on the home but not used as the ground. I've purchased 4 ground rods, two for the home and two for the garage and will post an update once I get them installed.

 You can see some of those cables that went nowhere. Now I need to crawl under the house and remove them. Ugh. It's normal practice to just cut them off but since there are so many and I want to rewire some of the home it will make it easier on me in the future to take the extra time and actually remove them now.

So that's it for replacing the panel. I had been quoted $1250 by an electrician and purchased the box for $150 shipped brand new from eBay and the breakers and surge protector I got for $250 at the local Home Depot. Now I've got an extra $850 to go towards my other projects, yay! More work!