shed power suggestions

Stubbie

Yeah your right (need to open my eyes)I thought the 90 was backfed from the meter so that wouldn't be an issue but all those cables cannot be clamped in one knockout. Also any subpanels fed from that meter main to the inside should be 4 wires.

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Stubbie

rsriverrat

yep i know they should be 4 wire and will be once i buy the house and can make my own changes, till then this early 80's era house has got to stay the way it is, apparently thats how they wired crap back then as most all of the houses are wired that way around here from what i can tell...

Ratt

InPhase277

These crap meter sockets that are installed around here seem to be part of some kind of POCO program to update services on their part without actually updating the interior wiring. All the ones I have replaced have breakers in them for the water heater, range, dryer, A/C and a 3-wire feed to what's usually a fuse box inside. At one time, there was just a meter base and that 3-wire feed would have been legal as the fuse box was the service equipment.

Best I can figure, the POCO side steps the NEC requirement of having a 4-wire feed going inside by falling back on the old stand-by "we're the utility, and that's our meter socket, so we're exempt from the NEC". I guess to an extent they are right, but in my opinion, it's jack leg. I get quite a bit of satisfaction beating one of these off the wall with my Estwing. Ahhh...

rsriverrat

i'll have one here in about 3 months that i'd be more then willing to let you beat off with an estwing, that is if you wont charge to much to come to crestview, florida, perhaps a semi working vacation, after all we do have the worlds best beaches with sugar white sand about 30 mins from me...

or perhaps you wouldnt mind commenting on my plan in post 27 of this thread, seems it got overlooked in the heated chit chat about my meter, then we can get back to these dang P.O.S. meter sockets...

Ratt

InPhase277

Darn, I'm not licensed in Florida, but thanks for the offer. I would have done the job for treefidy.

But post #27... let's see... I guess I overlooked it and went straight to the last page. But yes, that will work just fine, but there really is no need to switch the receptacles, unless you just want to. Personally, I like to keep the lights and receptacles on separate circuits, but that's just me.

rsriverrat

sorry to hear that you arent licensed in fl, maybe if u come my way when i am replacing my meter socket you can direct me to the best way to swing the estwing.. lol

anyway i had thought about having them on seperate circuits, however since this is going to be a multiwire on a double pole breaker it wont much matter if a trip a breaker cause i am going to lose the lights anyway regardless since both sides of the breaker will trip if there is a overcurrent condition. so my theory was to have less lights on the circuit the compressor will run on, and more lights on the circuit less power consuming devices will run on, and then i can kill all the power to the shed as i walk out the door, well all but for the motion light.. thats my theory anyway, maybe you or someone else can give me a better solution?

thanks for the laughs and help

Ratt

jamiedolan

Does he need to have a disconnect of some sorts in this building(shed)?

Jamie

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