Feeders

[laketime]

In residential applications what have you guys found to be the most profitable material to use for feeding the min panel or meter of a house in an underground install? Over head?

 

[scwirenut]

my answer for the most profitable is the POCO. they do it for free. I have never paid for a residential service lateral or drop. however if I had to, I would use urd triplex 4/0-4/0-2/0

 

[infinity]

For overhead IMO the most profitable would be SE cable.

 

[laketime]

Sorry if I didn't ask the question correctly. I meant from the meter to the main panel. In our area not unusual to have the meter (underground feed) located 100' from the house. What material is most profitable for the underground feed from the meter to the house?

 

[scwirenut]

i would have to vote for Mobile Home Feeder, you can get it in many sizes.
4/0-4/0-2/0-4 is about $2 a foot here

 

[masterinbama]

i would have to vote for Mobile Home Feeder, you can get it in many sizes.
4/0-4/0-2/0-4 is about $2 a foot here

Around here the supply houses call it "sweetbriar" yet none of them know why.

 

[wawireguy]

Probably the most economical way to feed a house from a pedestal is with direct burial cable, USE.

 

[ishium 80439]

Around here the supply houses call it "sweetbriar" yet none of them know why.

It is funny that you mention that. I was bidding something similiar a few months ago (and this method also gets my vote) and I looked in the National Estimator to get some baseline info and I noticed that all of the Al wire had "code" names. I had never heard of such a thing. The names range from penguin to malamute to julliard and on and on. I thought it was some manner of regional thing from where the author was.

I got the job and ordered the wire. When I looked at the pick ticket it had the codename listed on it. I have no clue why this is done.

 

[Houston]

When ever I have to replace a service lateral we always run 2" pvc sch 40 then use the approbriate size copper wire. THHN.