Bought the Generator from Sam's club and is going to be delivered in 2 weeks to Houston, TX (not inside city limits so no permitting required...just HOA stuff). I am trying to save a bunch of money with the contractor's blessing by pulling my own SER cable through the home/patio/garage attics (all attached and a good path).
Generator will be 160' from the electric pannel including all vertical drops, trench drops etc (includes about 10' of spare just incase). At the electricians instruction I dug a 20" to 24" trench 30 feet from the home to the back right corner of where we will set the generator pad.
I'm being told to purchase Aluminum #1-#1-#1-#3 SER cable and 18awg/7 sprinkler wire for the communications run and bundle them together in a 1.5" schedule 80 (they said schedule 40 but I wanna spend a few $ more and make it safer since my hands are involved).
When the generator is on NATURAL GAS, which is what I am on) it maxes out at 22.5KW according to the Generac technical specs. This results in 93.8 AMPS rounded up. This is Houston and we do get our attics up into the 140F to 150F range I would say.
I'm a complete rookie to all of this but every Amp drop calculator I run is screaming at me to use Aluminum 1/0, 1/0/, 1/0, #2 ground SER cable ( for a 160 foot run. Only 40' will be in Schedule 80 PVC if that matters? Houston, TX Harris County.
At the end of the day I don't mind spending a few more $'s ($35 to be exact) to err on the side of safety but I really want to make sure that the Aluminum 1/0 combo last mentioned is even big enough for my 93.8 Amps at a 160' run. Thanks in advance for any insight aside from code stuff.
Generator will be 160' from the electric pannel including all vertical drops, trench drops etc (includes about 10' of spare just incase). At the electricians instruction I dug a 20" to 24" trench 30 feet from the home to the back right corner of where we will set the generator pad.
I'm being told to purchase Aluminum #1-#1-#1-#3 SER cable and 18awg/7 sprinkler wire for the communications run and bundle them together in a 1.5" schedule 80 (they said schedule 40 but I wanna spend a few $ more and make it safer since my hands are involved).
When the generator is on NATURAL GAS, which is what I am on) it maxes out at 22.5KW according to the Generac technical specs. This results in 93.8 AMPS rounded up. This is Houston and we do get our attics up into the 140F to 150F range I would say.
I'm a complete rookie to all of this but every Amp drop calculator I run is screaming at me to use Aluminum 1/0, 1/0/, 1/0, #2 ground SER cable ( for a 160 foot run. Only 40' will be in Schedule 80 PVC if that matters? Houston, TX Harris County.
At the end of the day I don't mind spending a few more $'s ($35 to be exact) to err on the side of safety but I really want to make sure that the Aluminum 1/0 combo last mentioned is even big enough for my 93.8 Amps at a 160' run. Thanks in advance for any insight aside from code stuff.
