Feeder from main disco to garage

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Greg1707

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A customer wants to run 60 amp feeder to the detached garage for a small panel. The garage is about ten feet from the service entrance equipment. Is there a way to swap out the 200 OP/Disco for something that would feed 200 amps to the house and 60 amps to the nearby garage? Garage circuit.jpg
 
The only way I see is to either replace the main with a feed-through panel or add one following it.

I suppose you could tap onto the load wires in the disco, using tap allowance rules.
 
Under an exception to 230.40 you can install a set of service conductors to the detached garage directly from the meter socket to the detached garage if your POCO does not object.
 
I believe I have seen setups where the AC unit is adjacent to the service and if fed directly from there and not the panel inside the house?
 
augie47 said:
Under an exception to 230.40 you can install a set of service conductors to the detached garage directly from the meter socket to the detached garage if your POCO does not object.
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Yeah exception #3, my fav. The new set of service conductors would not have to terminate in the meter and could be bugged on to the conductors in that 200 amp disconnect if needed. Only potential disadvantage would be the conductors could only go a short distance in the garage before hitting the service disconnect.
 
electrofelon said:
Yeah exception #3, my fav. The new set of service conductors would not have to terminate in the meter and could be bugged on to the conductors in that 200 amp disconnect if needed. Only potential disadvantage would be the conductors could only go a short distance in the garage before hitting the service disconnect.
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Even a feeder supplied separate structure needs the disconnecting means in the building nearest the entry point though.
 
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I'd be tempted to clean things up and put one of these in place of the existing meter and disconnect. Gives you a 200 amp service disconnect, 200 amp sub feed lugs and 8 breaker spaces which you can catch the garage feeder with two of them. They make a generator interlock kit for this that fits between main and a breaker adjacent to the main so you can use as a manual transfer switch also.
 
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