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400 Amp Installation for New Home Use of Meter Main

New custom home to be built in Tennessee. TN still uses 2017 NEC. This post is just to see what others have to say about what I plan on having for electric service. The house will be close to 3200 square feet with a 2-vehicle garage attached via a…
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Bizarre home electrical system

This is a follow up to a question I asked recently about a subpanel that was not wired properly. I'm working on an extremely bizarre situation with the electrical system of an old house that predates electricity and originally had knob and tube.…
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Why do I measure low, varying phase leg voltage which fluctuates with load?

I have 123 volts on one phase and 89 or less on the other phase depending what I turn on. How do I troubleshoot this?
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Underground garage supply conduit standoff

I had 100 amp underground service to my old garage. In 2” conduit PVC SCH 40, 24” trench, code USE wire size, slip joints, etc While building the replacement garage, Contractor poured the new slab in the wrong spot & the supply conduit now exits the…
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Running ser cable from 200amp main to 100 amp sub panel

I'm running ser wire from my 200 amp main box in my garage to a 100amp service box for tankless water heater. I'm running the cable along the top edge of my garage around a corner about 30ft run total. I was wondering how I need to secure this…
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Pros/Cons combined meter/load center

I am renovating a cabin including complete re-siding so I thought I would use this as an opportunity to upgrade the electrical service to 200amp (currently 100amp). Two reasons, 1) might want to add real HVAC in the future, 2) the current service is…
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What type of outdoor breaker/disconnect for two buildings?

I am going to be building a larger garage. I am looking to put a 200amp service in the building. I had the power company come out and check my feeder lines and confirm that I had sufficient service for this. For my plan they say everything is okay…
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How should I get the service entrance cable to my new adjacent panel location?

How do I have to run the SER cables from the original hole(where the SER cable goes through the wall) to the side of the new panel? Can SER cable be exposed or needs to be inside a conduit? Conduit type? AFAIK I can not use EMT, the city inspector…
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Options for 200-400A Dual Meter Setups

Existing 100A service and main panel from PG&E here in California. Planning for a future detatched ADU to be built potentially years down the road. What I'm going to do now is relocate the service to a new pole in the backyard, and replace the…
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Have 2 meters/2 services for 2 structures - need to remove one meter and retain 2, 200 amp panels

I have a garage and a house on my property and each of them have their own meter and 200amp panel. This was setup decades ago when original owner ran a business out of the garage. I would like to remove one meter (house meter) so that both…
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How to remove bricks cemented on patio floor? Who do we hire?

My patio has some bricks cemented on top of older ones that I wish to remove. What kind of service do we need to hire for having the top bricks removed? Cement or mortar was used to set the bricks.
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What type of wire should I use from the meter to a 100 amp main breaker panel?

I have a 60 amp breaker panel in the middle of the house 25 feet from the meter. It currently has 8 gauge wire that runs into and through the attic, over to the panel and down into the panel for a total of about 36 ft of wire. I want to upgrade to a…
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Does a new manufactured home on permanent foundation need a shutoff within 30ft?

I am installing a new 2020 manufactured home on my land about 40' from a permanent underground 200A service meter-center/meter-main panel (Eaton MBE2040B200BTS). This panel currently only has 2 circuits in it: a 110V 20A utility outdoor GFCI circuit…
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How do I compute how much electric service to provision?

Generic question here. I won't self-answer. Suppose I am adding significant new loads to an existing house - say, a 50A hot tub and a 50A RV receptacle. Those are big loads for a modest gas home. It seems like I ought to re-compute the provision…
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IBT and whole house transfer switch

The inter-system bonding termination (IBT) is where other services like telephone and cable TV get their ground bonds from the house's grounding electrode system (ground rods). 2014 NEC (NJ) 250.94 seems to say that an IBT must be placed in…
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