Timeline for Disconnect breaker upgrade 125A -> 200A
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| Aug 9, 2023 at 22:40 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @LukeCatania -- the reason why Dominion is using a 200A meter is because that's their standard as the meter doesn't set the ampacity of the service. However, the sockets and such do. If you could find another tapbox for your metering equipment, you might be able to use it along with a meter-main to pull 200A out, with your existing position "blanked off", but that'd require NOS hardware most likely, and explicit approval from your utility as well | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:50 | comment | added | Luke Catania | I have read on other forums that meter boxes do have a lifespan 20-25 years and changing out old meter boxes are beneficial even without an upgrade. These stacks are 36 years old. But I don't see my neighbors buying into that even if the access to change out their service lines was not complicated. | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:50 | comment | added | Luke Catania | My neighbor below has no garage so has no benefit to upgrade. And I if were willing, I don't know if I could get away with just one stack since the stacks &terminal box are all adjacent. I definitely would not be able to get 5 neighbors to upgrade. all but mine and the neighbor below have simple access to the service line coming into their panel since it is on my garage wall & easily accessible through the garage ceiling. With the lines secured to studs & no conduit, there is no easy way to change out the other lines for the neighbor above or across the stairwell without opening up walls. | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | Luke Catania | I don't see my neighbors wanting to split the cost of a new stack. The neighbor above is very frugal, and both above and below would not see the benefit of upgrading their meter stack. My neighbor above is looking to get an electric car, but he said he drives so little he'll just trickle charge his car through a 110 outlet in his garage. | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | Luke Catania | I also found this breaker and while it is larger in size the slots to connect it to the bus bar line up. I know just because it fits does not mean it is to NEC, so if it did fit may not pass inspection. homedepot.com/p/… | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:48 | comment | added | Luke Catania | The slip-on/fast-on or a bolt-on connectors I am asking about are in the link below. These shown are for smaller gauge wires, but do they make them for larger gauge? supplyhouse.com/… | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 15:47 | comment | added | Luke Catania | If that is so, how can Dominion Energy place a 200A Meter into the meter socket. Wouldn't that mean that 200 amps is coming into the meter stack & it's just 125A breaker that is reducing the service. Does it break NEC if Dominion put in a 200A meter? Since the 200A panel I want to have installed has a disconnect on the panel, would there be any way to bypass the disconnect on the meter stack. I don't know NEC, so I am just throwing things out. Rather than using a breaker at the disconnect is there any way to wire to the meter stack bus using slip-on/fast-on or a bolt-on connectors. | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 1:59 | history | answered | ThreePhaseEel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |