I imagine it would be a lot easier to lay the wire in the long straight part of the hole, straighten the wire out for the entire 90 foot run. My plumber’s brother is an electrician and came out to the site today and said NOT to try and put the wire through the conduit as I lay it in the trench. I think the 2” conduit elbows are long sweep 24”. I’m really trying to get a handle on all this and make sure the conduit is done right before my plumber fills in the hole because he wants to get paid for a completed job. Maybe the garage won’t even be a sub panel of the main 200 amp and be split off just after the meter. So maybe upgrading to a 320 amp service is the way to go anyway. Currently there’s only 120 V going to the garage, and I’m going to need to shuffle some circuits out of the main panel into the sun panel next to it in order to have a double breaker for the garage. ![]() My 200 amp main panel is already full and has two sun panels in the house already. If I can get the 320 amp meter box, we will likely proceed with upping the service. My notes do say “brand new meter box” though. $1250 is new info, as is the worries with the existing meter box/socket. Never heard from them again, so I’m not having my plumber dig the trench and am working with a top notch electrician, but it’s the weekend and I’m possibly changing stuff. They never gave me the list and the next call I got was from Puerto Rico saying another guy was going to give me the list and take my deposit. Could coincide for short period of time.Īt first I was working with a group that asked for $8000 almost a month before the project was due to start, and I asked if they could tell me what they’d be buying with it. Electrician to install new meter box, on a different spot on the house.third party inspector, send in cut in card and that it’s ok to energize.320 amp meter upgrade completely different configuration.Could be a problem if the u-guard 4-5” exaggerated. how high should conduit come up? 3-4”.knock outs on the meter box must match.conduit - rated for electric wire 320 amp service can run parallel connectors, or a single set of conductors.conduit can’t be touching, run at same depth.My notes from the engineer at the power company are as follows, hard for me to understand honestly. If not, I don’t know what to do, do I need to actually run TWO 2” conduits and have the power company out two u-guards on the pole? If it turns out that two pieces of 4/0 aluminum 3 wire will fit just fine into a 2” conduit, then all is good, and I can stick to the plan. Problem is that I’m not sure how to lay the conduit because I haven’t spoken to either my electrician or the place that has the 320 amp socket / box. I believe I found an approved 320 amp meter box Friday night, and I’m going to call in the morning to determine if it’s really available. And it would be good to have a new one available in case the electrician breaks a lug or something. My-po-co approved meter sockets are pretty much impossible to get right now everyone tells me, at least for 200 amp service. When we talked last, the electrician and I both figured we were just going to keep 200 amp service and the existing meter box and meter, BUT I got word from the power company that not only is there a $1250 charge if I’m not upgrading from 200 to 320 that also, we need to make sure my existing meter box is on the list of approved devices. I’m also afraid that two 200 amp service (4/0?) won’t fit in a single 2” conduit but I understand that I need to run 2” conduit to the pole because the u-guard the power company will add needs to fit over the conduit (that must stick out of the ground 3-4”). I think I need to make another run to get some conduit for the cable and data unless anyone won’t get upset by those running in a conduit that has power in it. ![]() I cleared out Home Depot of 2” conduit tonight and have enough to run to the pole and another run to the garage. Considering upping this to 320 amp, which I believe means I need to run basically 400 amp wire, which I was told (by power co engineer managing the connection) that two sets of 200 amp (4/0?) will sufficeĢ) run 100 amp service from house to garage under ground.ģ) put conduit for potential solar on the garageĤ) run somehow data (and phone?) wire and coax for cable to the garage. Running it under ground past the garage to the pole behind it. Click to expand.Meter is and will be on the house.ġ) House to pole, currently (no pun intended) 200 amp service running directly above the swimming pool.
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