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What is the required height of new meter base? Is there a requirement for mast height? Mast will be installed on outside wall of building.
 
Butler said:
What is the required height of new meter base? Is there a requirement for mast height? Mast will be installed on outside wall of building.
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Check with the serving POCO. Many have different requirements.
 
I agree with Hv&Lv check with the POCO. I've seen installations in driveways at 7'. We shoot for eye-level or about 5'6" to the center of the meter.
 
infinity said:
I agree with Hv&Lv check with the POCO. I've seen installations in driveways at 7'. We shoot for eye-level or about 5'6" to the center of the meter.
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Ha ha ha..............there's house down the block from me.........it's gotta be at least 13' to center.

Thought maybe it was installed then they removed earth??? But it shows no signs of that.

Been that way for 25 yrs that I know of.

Then at times you see them 2' off the ground...Go figure.

Good day all,
 
Then there are meter pedestals where you are not going to get them any higher than about 3 feet above grade to center of meter.

Most POCO accept them even though their general rule is often that the meter be somewhere between 4 - 6 feet above surface in front of meter.
 
ritelec said:
Ha ha ha..............there's house down the block from me.........it's gotta be at least 13' to center.

Thought maybe it was installed then they removed earth??? But it shows no signs of that.

Been that way for 25 yrs that I know of.

Then at times you see them 2' off the ground...Go figure.

Good day all,
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Possibility - it was once at reasonable height above the floor of a patio and the patio is no longer there.
 
kwired said:
Possibility - it was once at reasonable height above the floor of a patio and the patio is no longer there.
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I agree..........would have to have been.

Shows no sign of it...But yes would have to a been.

Interesting though is that it's been that way for as long as I've been here. The meter reader would have to get out an 8' or 10' ladder to read the thing.......


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Thank you for the literature.

Good stuff..but than again it depends on you utility company (although they are similar).

was going to question page 37........but then it came to me.
 
Page 45.............always been on my mind.

The grounded delta.
I'm located near Paterson NJ where the was heavy industry.
They used the delta for the 3 phase, and what I was told at the time that a leg is intensionally grounded because if it's not and that leg shorts in the system.....the short is not identified and the system is grounded else where.

Fast forward 20 yrs....... Did an install for a machine shop.
The engineer wanted 3 phase delta. Not grounded. I stressed my view. It went in not grounded...............always been on my mind, thanks for letting me vent.
 
Butler said:
What is the required height of new meter base? Is there a requirement for mast height? Mast will be installed on outside wall of building.
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As others said, the POCO usually has a say in this. Always wise to get the POCO service rules in hand. I did some work in an rural, heavy snow area area once with a POCO that was so particular about the meter location that they made a site visit for each install and detailed it right down to even the direction it faced.
 
texie said:
As others said, the POCO usually has a say in this. Always wise to get the POCO service rules in hand. I did some work in an rural, heavy snow area area once with a POCO that was so particular about the meter location that they made a site visit for each install and detailed it right down to even the direction it faced.
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I don't know if they still require it but one rural utility I ran across down south required that the meter be readable from the road by binocular. The meter reader would drive by and read them without even getting out of his vehicle. Really strange to me to see meters on poles out by the road.
 
ritelec said:
I agree..........would have to have been.

Shows no sign of it...But yes would have to a been.

Interesting though is that it's been that way for as long as I've been here. The meter reader would have to get out an 8' or 10' ladder to read the thing.......


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petersonra said:
I don't know if they still require it but one rural utility I ran across down south required that the meter be readable from the road by binocular. The meter reader would drive by and read them without even getting out of his vehicle. Really strange to me to see meters on poles out by the road.
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Some places they are not as concerned as they once was, as they are reading meters with wireless communication devices, or devices that send reading over the lines and it is recieved at equipment in the substation. They do periodically manually read them just to verify accuracy, or if at a service for maintenance or repairs they read it anyway for verification purposes.
ritelec said:
Page 45.............always been on my mind.

The grounded delta.
I'm located near Paterson NJ where the was heavy industry.
They used the delta for the 3 phase, and what I was told at the time that a leg is intensionally grounded because if it's not and that leg shorts in the system.....the short is not identified and the system is grounded else where.

Fast forward 20 yrs....... Did an install for a machine shop.
The engineer wanted 3 phase delta. Not grounded. I stressed my view. It went in not grounded...............always been on my mind, thanks for letting me vent.
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You can have an ungrounded system. If you do you are supposed to have ground fault sensing equipment to alert users of a fault condition. It still works with one line faulted to ground - it simply becomes a grounded conductor, but when a second line becomes grounded you have problems, and overcurrent devices are still there to step in.
 
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