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Adding a meter main to a service entrance section....

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ITSCdanimal

Electrical
May 26, 2005
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OK, I could use some suggestions for this small commercial building design project!
This is a link to a picture of the switchgear.....


There are parallel 600A feeders running underground from the power company transformer rising up into the middle section, and there is a main disconnect at the top of that section. The two sections on either side are 100/2 metered house feeds (one feed the entire building complex, the other feeds the house for this particular building).

So, now a tenant is moving in, and I am not sure how to provide a metered service from a set-up like this. Initially, I had nothing but a single line diagram to work from, and I assumed that a meter/main module could be installed in the service entrance section. I'm not sure now if that would be possible.

The electrical contractor has offered two suggestions - to use a bus kit to extend to a brand new CT meter section with a main circuit breaker, which would be expensive.... or to tap off of the 600A bus and extend to a standard meter main - less expensive, but what about the unmetered tap?

Any other suggestions? I am not sure why the original design didn't account for a need for a tenant meter, but so be it. I'd like to be able to just throw a meter/main in the service entrance section, but I am not sure if that can happen. I could really use some insight into this!!!

Thanks guys.

PS - for reference, here is a catalog page of Ryco products.....
 
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PS - Could I replace the service entrance section (27") and one of the house sections (15"?) with a CT Meter section with a main (36"), and relocate the abandoned house loads and reconnect the second house section? Would the meter/main section have provisions for service entrance?
 
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