400 amps service or 2 200 amps?

[mtnelectrical]

I am working on a building that caught fire over the weekend. Somebody was smoking and felt sleep. anyway, the building was on fire and the flame coming out of the first floor window melted the poco wires that fed this building. Now there is a service with 2 runs from point of connection to 2 mains, 200 amps each, or could we call it a 400 service? My question is because this service will be reinspected by the city and there is no grounding wire to water meter and I'm adding grounding rods too.

 

[augie47]

sorry, I miss the question

 

[Dennis Alwon]

Is this a multifamily dwelling?

 

[SEO]

I would call it two 200 amp services and ground each one accordingly. Best to check with local AHJ.

 

[mtnelectrical]

yes it is a multifamily. 25 apartments

 

[Rewire]

Two meters?

 

[raider1]

yes it is a multifamily. 25 apartments

2 200 amp breakers to feed 25 apartments?

Chris

 

[nunu161]

i think i understand what your saying, and i'd have to say you can either run a wire rated for the wire size you are using to feed each panel and run a line from each panelto the water line. Or take the size of the wire your using to feed the meter base and run a gec to the water line from the first panel and tap off to the second. (but i would only do that if both panels are in the same locations)

 

[mtnelectrical]

there are 2 parallel runs, overhead, going to the basement each one to a MB 200 amps 1ph 240/120 (aluminum wire 4/0), after mains they go to a big wire trough maybe 10 by 10, then there are 13 meters on top of the trough and 13 on the bottom, upper meters controlled by on 200 amps MB and lower meters protected by the other 200 ampsMB. Apartments are small, 3 rooms 1 kitch 1 bathroom, mains are next to each other.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I guess I would call this a 400 amp service.

 

[electricmanscott]

Somebody was smoking and felt sleep. .

Bet that's not all they felt. Ouch.

 

[Ohmy]

That sounds like a 400A service to me.