Installing a 200A residential service (In Canada) on my garage and will be sub feeding my house with 1/0 ACWU.
Fairly new to residential service installs..
I'm using 250 kcmil aluminum as service conductors for mast and meter base to main breaker. My original plan was to use a rigid steel nipple straight through the back of the meter base through the wall and into my panel. Unfortunately I can't get my 1.7M (5'6") max breaker height with that option and the hydro company is pretty picky about meter base height so not much wiggle room there.
Is rigid PVC an acceptable means to feed my conductors from my meter base to my panel? I seem to recall a rule about only using steel when passing through walls.. 6-302 only states "rigid conduit" for service conductors and didn't clearly define steel or PVC as far as I could find.
Thanks!
Fairly new to residential service installs..
I'm using 250 kcmil aluminum as service conductors for mast and meter base to main breaker. My original plan was to use a rigid steel nipple straight through the back of the meter base through the wall and into my panel. Unfortunately I can't get my 1.7M (5'6") max breaker height with that option and the hydro company is pretty picky about meter base height so not much wiggle room there.
Is rigid PVC an acceptable means to feed my conductors from my meter base to my panel? I seem to recall a rule about only using steel when passing through walls.. 6-302 only states "rigid conduit" for service conductors and didn't clearly define steel or PVC as far as I could find.
Thanks!