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Advice for installing How should I connect a new breaker boxpanel while temporarily feeding the old one?

We have a 200 amp service with the main disconnect on the meter pole outside. We will be rewiring the entire mobile home with a new breaker box but in stages, with the old panel being a subpanel until the wiring is complete. 

Would it be better to run a new feeder from the main disconnect to the new box and connect the old one via a subfeed lug (to eliminate the old feeder) or to connect the new box to the main disconnect via a subfeed lug? I'm assuming that if we connect the old panel to the new one via a subfeed lug we'll need to run it underground between the two. 

Both the new and old panels will be/are 200 amps.We We don't know what the current feeder is which is why we are planning on eventually removing that as well, unless we can figure out what it is.

Advice for installing a new breaker box

We have a 200 amp service with the main disconnect on the meter pole outside. We will be rewiring the entire mobile home with a new breaker box but in stages, with the old panel being a subpanel until the wiring is complete. Would it be better to run a new feeder from the main disconnect to the new box and connect the old one via a subfeed lug (to eliminate the old feeder) or to connect the new box to the main disconnect via a subfeed lug? I'm assuming that if we connect the old panel to the new one via a subfeed lug we'll need to run it underground between the two. Both the new and old panels will be/are 200 amps.We don't know what the current feeder is which is why we are planning on eventually removing that as well, unless we can figure out what it is.

How should I connect a new panel while temporarily feeding the old one?

We have a 200 amp service with the main disconnect on the meter pole outside. We will be rewiring the entire mobile home with a new breaker box but in stages, with the old panel being a subpanel until the wiring is complete. 

Would it be better to run a new feeder from the main disconnect to the new box and connect the old one via a subfeed lug (to eliminate the old feeder) or to connect the new box to the main disconnect via a subfeed lug? I'm assuming that if we connect the old panel to the new one via a subfeed lug we'll need to run it underground between the two. 

Both the new and old panels will be/are 200 amps. We don't know what the current feeder is which is why we are planning on eventually removing that as well, unless we can figure out what it is.

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Advice for installing a new breaker box

We have a 200 amp service with the main disconnect on the meter pole outside. We will be rewiring the entire mobile home with a new breaker box but in stages, with the old panel being a subpanel until the wiring is complete. Would it be better to run a new feeder from the main disconnect to the new box and connect the old one via a subfeed lug (to eliminate the old feeder) or to connect the new box to the main disconnect via a subfeed lug? I'm assuming that if we connect the old panel to the new one via a subfeed lug we'll need to run it underground between the two. Both the new and old panels will be/are 200 amps.We don't know what the current feeder is which is why we are planning on eventually removing that as well, unless we can figure out what it is.