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We are building a large privately funded commercial building in Massachusetts.
The client owns a garage on the property, and the main service will be coming into a rise pole at the peak of the garage and down between the doors.
There is a wall between the garage doors, and the client wants to mount the panel on that wall. The panel is a 94 inch tall 24 inch wide 400 amp ventilated panel. It hardly has enough room to fit between the garage floor and the ceiling, and there is only 12 inches from the wall to the garage door track.
Is there anything stating the panel can be right at a garage bay? If someone ever pulls into the garage, there will be less than 36" in front of the panel.
The line drop comes down a conduit to a meter socket and then right through wall to the panel. The panel will then feed a 200 amp panel 250feet away in a new building through underground conduit.
Everything except this location has very specific engineering, and the vague aspect to this portion makes me on edge. We build high quality buildings and are extremely safety oriented
If you were to be standing outside the garage, the panel would be within 1 foot of front wall of the garage facing toward the side wall.
The space would be open to the public when the doors are open.
It seems like a hazard to have a panel where someone could leave the door open and snow/water blow in on the panel, or while it was being serviced, it could be exposed to the elements.
Let me know your thoughts, we are a General Contracting firm and I would like to have as much information as possible to contribute in the weekly meeting to give our client a quality product.
The client owns a garage on the property, and the main service will be coming into a rise pole at the peak of the garage and down between the doors.
There is a wall between the garage doors, and the client wants to mount the panel on that wall. The panel is a 94 inch tall 24 inch wide 400 amp ventilated panel. It hardly has enough room to fit between the garage floor and the ceiling, and there is only 12 inches from the wall to the garage door track.
Is there anything stating the panel can be right at a garage bay? If someone ever pulls into the garage, there will be less than 36" in front of the panel.
The line drop comes down a conduit to a meter socket and then right through wall to the panel. The panel will then feed a 200 amp panel 250feet away in a new building through underground conduit.
Everything except this location has very specific engineering, and the vague aspect to this portion makes me on edge. We build high quality buildings and are extremely safety oriented
If you were to be standing outside the garage, the panel would be within 1 foot of front wall of the garage facing toward the side wall.
The space would be open to the public when the doors are open.
It seems like a hazard to have a panel where someone could leave the door open and snow/water blow in on the panel, or while it was being serviced, it could be exposed to the elements.
Let me know your thoughts, we are a General Contracting firm and I would like to have as much information as possible to contribute in the weekly meeting to give our client a quality product.
