Is conduit required for entrance conductors INSIDE the house

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Info: yep, failed rough in (Tennesse, NEC code state, no local code). overhead service, thru weather head, into meter, into outside disconnect panel, into conduit, into the interior wall...
200amp service, 2/0 THWN. Inspector says it has to be inside conduit all the way to the inside box. Is there a reference to code section that someone can help me with?
 
You are saying that it goes into conduit in the interior wall but that conduit does not go all the way to the interior panel?
Or is there somewhere else in the run you described which is not in conduit. (Not counting the interior of the meter or disconnect, that is.)
Simple THWN not dual rated as SE or other cable type does need to be in a raceway regardless of size, IMHO.

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Welcome to the forum!

Your inspector did you a favor because he knows or is impling how the
local power company will accept your work. (to hook up too) Oh course
besides what rules and reg their enforcing! :)

In most cases you can find your local POCO on line, Builders drawings and PDF's
viewable for your use. Be it Dominion, Duke, TVA, etc.

Good Luck, welcome again!
 
StroudS said:
Info: yep, failed rough in (Tennesse, NEC code state, no local code). overhead service, thru weather head, into meter, into outside disconnect panel, into conduit, into the interior wall...
200amp service, 2/0 THWN. Inspector says it has to be inside conduit all the way to the inside box. Is there a reference to code section that someone can help me with?
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In this case the inspector is on the money.

Welcome to the forum.:)
 
cadpoint said:
Welcome to the forum!

Your inspector did you a favor because he knows or is impling how the
local power company will accept your work. (to hook up too) Oh course
besides what rules and reg their enforcing! :)

In most cases you can find your local POCO on line, Builders drawings and PDF's
viewable for your use. Be it Dominion, Duke, TVA, etc.

Good Luck, welcome again!
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This doesn't sound like a POCO issue to me. The installation clearly didn't meet NEC requirements.
 
curt swartz said:
This doesn't sound like a POCO issue to me. The installation clearly didn't meet NEC requirements.
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Sure is, if out right the THWN is just strapped to the floor joists. :)

The OP doesn't know all the dance moves, I don't think it's a stand alone issue, IE
only NEC.

If you were working and didn't know exactly how a install something needed to be
inspectable to some Code with-in a region without a NEC code point of reference or some other source Book, what would you do?

You have to remember some area's (POCO's) will not allow or limit the distance of a pass-thru wall to meter to inside disconnect in a structure. Even thou one can argue they (POCO) only have control to first means of disconnect, or even the loop connection. If you don't think the inspector is not doing them a favor I disagree.
Old history is that the POCO use own through the meter.

More to the point, the people up north like to run SEU (whatever) all day long, and make fun of pipe runs on weather heads! They can do it due to their local codes.

I've been on Jobs where POCO's referenced NEC Codes for complicance to allow theirs work to move forward. EX - The old 2" of concrete covering internal runs of main service!

Sudo related one local county requires a raceway for Hot Tubes, which includes underneath the crawl space, so put it in pipe!
 
1: you guys are awesome, thanks! 2: BSME... I can read and comprehend code. 3: are you telling me that all of your residentialinstallations come inside and are routed through conduit to the inside panel? If so, I respect that, and would like to see the section of NEC that states it, and how it is acceptable.
i worked really hard on this installation, my own house... A log cabin no less, and I am willing to do the overkill methods. I just want to know if if it's required by NEC?
Help me out. I'm one of those that must see, read. And understand...
And BTW, what the h_ll is POCO :blink:
 
StroudS said:
Info: yep, failed rough in (Tennesse, NEC code state, no local code). overhead service, thru weather head, into meter, into outside disconnect panel, into conduit, into the interior wall...
200amp service, 2/0 THWN. Inspector says it has to be inside conduit all the way to the inside box. Is there a reference to code section that someone can help me with?
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Wait....back up a little and give us more info.

Is the wiring from the weatherhead to the meter THWN?
If so, is it in conduit?

Or do you have SE cable run and are calling it THWN?

Ok, what do you have from meter to the outside disconnect?
Conduit, cable, or both?

And from the disconnect to the inside panel, what do you have?

Main question....what part of the run is NOT in conduit?

Tennessee allows SE cable, but only on certain building surfaces. It's allowed on wooden or vinyl siding but not on any stone or masonry siding.


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