![]() ![]() Since your distribution panel is a subpanel it does not have to have a MOPD. From that disconnect, you should pull individual copper conductors through conduit to your distribution panel. At that outside box, you need to create the GEC for the house, with the two ground rods and the bond to your cold water inlet. It makes the distribution panel a subpanel. The 200A disconnect at the house is the MOPD for the new panel in the house. But unless you install a 200A breaker there for the feed to the house, it is not the main panel for the panel in the house, and does not make that panel a subpanel.īefore going on, why are you installing a 200A disconnect there? What is the combined load in your shop? That panel can be treated as a main panel, with neutrals and grounds combined. That is the meter base and outside panel at your shop. That said, the bond between the utility neutral and your GEC must be made at the first point of disconnect. Does this mean the new breaker box in my basement is to be treated as a sub panel and the meter/8 space breaker is the main panel?įor simplification, Power will come underground to the meter location at my shop, then go underground to the exterior disconnect on my house and then through a wall into my basement (4 feet below grade, 3 feet above grade) to the new house breaker box.įirst of all, "All codes is local." IOW, everything depends on the regulations your local authority will require you to meet before they will issue you a permit for this work. The #4 THWN wire is to separate the ground from the neutral from the meter to the house. Then i will re-energize my old 50 amp panel from the new one, and as the house gets re-wired, run all new wire to the new panel.ĭo i have a good grasp on doing this project myself? There will be 2 ground rods at the first meter socket/panel, and two between the exterior disconnect and my 30 space load center. This new panel will be grounded and bonded by 8 foot rods and cold water supply. Still in PVC, the wires head 15 feet into a Square D 200 amp load center. The wires come up Sched 80 PVC into a Square D 200 amp circuit breaker exterior disconnect and head down (but not into the ground) Sched 80 PVC and through a wall into my basement. This is direct bury for 70 feet to my house. Then the 4/0 cables plus a #4 THWN go down schedule 80 PVC 28 inches into the ground. Then the wires go up schedule 80 into an outdoor Square D QO 200 amp meter socket with 8 spaces for the circuits for my shop. This goes immediately into schedule 80 PVC and then 28 inches into the ground. Here is my plan.įrom the power pole, down with 4/0 4/0 4/0 aluminum URD USE XLP cable. Hi, I'm in need of some help on the electrical to my home.
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