Location of Sevice Disconnect

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Planning on building either a 600 or an 800 amp service to feed an outdoor event.
The service will be 120/240v 1ph.
The power company will be setting a pole at the edge of the property and its roughly 120' from the pole to where the new service equipment will be.

I had planned on an 800 amp service to a 3r MLO MDP with (6) 200 amp breakers in it and utilizing the 6 movement rule.

The Power company CT's services that are 800 amps and above so that's what I'd like to have. The Calculated load is not set in stone but they have the capability of using somewhere between 3-400 amps.

It is possible however that the Power company may only provide a 600 amp service with a 600 amp k rated meter at the pole.
I do not want to put the meter at the building where the Service Equipment will be. There's limited space at that location.

My question is if the power company does not allow the 800 amp service and provides a self contained 600 amp k rated meterbase at the pole, am I then required to set a 600 amp fused 3r disconnect at the pole ? or if we set the meter at the pole can I still consider the conductors from the meter to the MLO MDP which is 125' from the pole service conductors and leave the disconnect out?

I don't want them to have to suffer the expense of a 600 amp fused 3r disconnect at the pole if it's not required but I can't seem to find the code rule.

All of the new service equipment will be outside mounted on the side of an existing Structure and that existing structure will be refed from one of the 200amp breakers out of the MDP.

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I think it is totally up to the POCO should they have a preference, either method you mentioned would comply with NEC.
 
kwired said:
I think it is totally up to the POCO should they have a preference, either method you mentioned would comply with NEC.
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So even if they put the meter on the pole at the property line, I shouldn't be required to put a fused disconnect below it, I should be able to come from the meter to the MDP 125' away without having to install a disconnect below the meter at all,,, correct?

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jap said:
So even if they put the meter on the pole at the property line, I shouldn't be required to put a fused disconnect below it, I should be able to come from the meter to the MDP 125' away without having to install a disconnect below the meter at all,,, correct?

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Meter location has nothing to do with where service disconnecting means may be required - to the NEC. To some POCO's and their own specifications it may matter. NEC doesn't even care if there is a meter, conductors on either side of most single meters are still just plain 'ol service conductors to the NEC and the meter is nothing more then a wide point in those conductors. I can't take credit for calling it that, someone else used that term here in the past but I can't remember who.
 
I agree ,I just have others that don't ,and I just needed to hear it.
Thanks

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