Electrical service

[greg Forster]

I've gotten the POCO engineer
and county elec inspector involved now, but the ideas are still coming from me- they just give a yea or nay
320a way more than I need
Is there a 200amp meter combo
Where I can go 150amp to house panel
and 50 to outbuilding panel?
Would that contain a 200 amp main disconnect and a 150 & 50 amp disconnect or do I have to set a separate can next to the meter base with the 150 and 50 amp disconnects ?

[Mike Heidrick]

Get the list of approved meter bases from your poco to see you options. They makes all kinds of configurations. You don't want to just run a 50amp circuit breaker off your main panel?

[greg Forster]

What I'm looking at is running 200amp to a pedestal then a straight
run 70' to 150 panel in the house,
and a straight run 80' to shop for
the 50 amp
If I mount the meter on the house,
it's a much tougher dig for POCO
including I have to tear out a section of 4' stone retaining wall ( per POCO) plus coming out of the house to shop with the 50 amp. I'll have a 150' run with a 90 degree turn-too many obstacles
But the main reason is the house needs a complete overhaul stripped
back to studs lots and lots of work
It's an 1840s post & beam so I don't
Know all that I find to deal with
It will be a long time before I can get
the electric installed in the house
If my thinking is correct, I should be able to hot up the shop without having the house panel ready since
It will be a sperate disconnect coming off the meter
I'll take this question to my inspector
after POCO verifies a few things
with me
I'm open (desperate) for any/all
ideas

[Tom M King]

I wouldn't want to tear out a section of a stone wall, but how thick is it, and what has to go through it? You might like to look at my website which has a lot of pictures of an 1828 house I worked on. The inside walls were worth saving, but the siding wasn't, so we pulled the siding off, had new milled to match the old, and while we had the siding off, wiring was done from the outside, with no wires showing anywhere in the house, including the basement. www.HistoricHousePreservation.com We also insulated it from the outside, and there are pictures of that process too.