400 amp service

[jap]

Considering the conductors on the load side of the OCPD in the pedestal as Service Conductors may work out if feeding a remote house and a shop as an example, but, if you install a convenience outlet on the pedestal fed from a 1p 20 amp branch breaker in the distribution space , how then could you still consider the conductors on the load side of the OCPD in the pedestal as Service Conductors if you can't re-bond a neutral past that point?

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[wwhitney]

if you install a convenience outlet on the pedestal fed from a 1p 20 amp branch breaker in the distribution space

If you did this, that 20A breaker in the POCO's meter/main is not subject to the NEC, so you'd need to install your own 20A breaker, along with grounding electrodes and an N-G bond, and then your convenience receptacle. The supplies leading to other buildings would be other services.

Cheers, Wayne

 

[jap]

If you did this, that 20A breaker in the POCO's meter/main is not subject to the NEC, so you'd need to install your own 20A breaker, along with grounding electrodes and an N-G bond, and then your convenience receptacle. The supplies leading to other buildings would be other services.

Cheers, Wayne

It's not an if.
Oddly, we're required to put some type of outlet on the pedestal before the inspector will give it a green tag for use and allow the POCO to install the meter.

If the breakers in the POCO's meter/main wasn't subject to the NEC I would think there would be no way they could require you to do that.

As far as the N-G bond that's exactly my point.

You would not establish your grounding and bonding at the pedestal if you considered the conductors below the OCPD as Service Conductors leading to the other buildings.
You would establish the Grounding and Bonding at the structures themselves and not pull an EGC from the pedestal to them.

If you have to establis a N-G connection at the pedestal for the convenience outlet why then would you be allowed to re-bond at the other buildings?

Oh well,

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[kwired]

Do they keep it locked, or does the customer have access to the disconnect? (Just curious, not suggesting that bears on the code questions.)

Cheers, Wayne

Only the meter socket or meter portion of a combination device like most any place else does.