hbeery10
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- Sardis, Ohio
I am working with an EE on doing a design for a fellowship center (this is a church project and I am on the building committee). Most of the building is slab on grade but one corner of the building has a mechanical room that will be below grade with an exterior access via a concrete set of steps. This room will have one exterior door that will typically be locked. The service to the building is a 320 amp splitting into 2 - 200 amp disconnects located on the outside of the building. From the disconnects feeders will be run to 2 load centers inside the building.
I would like to see both of the load centers located in the mechanical room, but the EE is concerned that because someone would have to exit the building and walk around the corner to get to the mechanical room that the panels would not be considered readily accessible to the building occupants (240.24(A) and (B)). Comments would be welcomed on if locating the load centers in the basement mechanical room would be a violation or not.
Garth Maibach
I would like to see both of the load centers located in the mechanical room, but the EE is concerned that because someone would have to exit the building and walk around the corner to get to the mechanical room that the panels would not be considered readily accessible to the building occupants (240.24(A) and (B)). Comments would be welcomed on if locating the load centers in the basement mechanical room would be a violation or not.
Garth Maibach