Unfused Sevice Entrance

[cdslotz]

Up until the 80's, in Dallas you could run as far into the structure unfused, as long as it was in GRC.
There are tons of older buildings where the overhead POCO drop his 5-6 weatherheads and takes off 50=200' into the buildling.

No kidding

 

[readydave8]

I've worked on houses where poco hits weatherhead, entrance cable enters attic, leaves attic opposite end of house, drops to meter, entrance cable enters house and strapped 1/2 way thru crawlspace, finally gets to main in panel. Athens, Georgia '60s era is one that comes to mind.

 

[iwire]

I'd rather have my SEC inside of a piece of RMC than just running down the side of my wood sided building.:happyno:

And I would rather have SE on the outside of my home than RMC in my wall.


Oh wait, I do have SE outside my home.

 

[ActionDave]

And I would rather have SE on the outside of my home than RMC in my wall.

Insert Marc's famous photo of house sided in SE here.

Oh wait, I do have SE outside my home.

 

[RICK NAPIER]

Here we generally allow only a few feet. Just enough to enter the building and head right for the panel. We don't allow any additional length for RMC. I had one site that a short in the panel led to a melt down of the service feeders. It melted 3" off a 4" RMC that didn't even have any conductors in it.

 

[cowboyjwc]

Insert Marc's famous photo of house sided in SE here.

That's the one I was thinking of.

 

[ActionDave]

That's the one I was thinking of.

Someone needs to make those thoughts materialize and post it. Where's 480 Sparky?

 

[cowboyjwc]

And I would rather have SE on the outside of my home than RMC in my wall.


Oh wait, I do have SE outside my home.

Well it does make it easier to figure out where the fire started.:roll: