Adwilson3000
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- Indiana
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- engineer
Ganged meter enclosures are mostly not available, or at least a very long lead item. What is everybody doing for multi-family installations to deal with this?
Meter Gangs not available
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electrofelon
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- Cherry Valley NY, Seattle, WA
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- Electrician
Single sockets with a bussed gutter or wireway?
farmantenna
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Proposed that to our utility. "No! " "But." Not our problem"
Got lucky and condo owner found 3 and two weeks later two of ours arrived. Awaiting more. This was 2 months ago. No longer at that condo job, thankfully.
One order was placed with very small supplier in February and have not received anything. But, the order placed at same time with very large supplier produced the aforementioned two and probably have received more. Manufacturers may be playing favorites.
texie
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Yep, just like the old days. Used to do a lot of them. Among the drawbacks is it takes a lot of space.
electrofelon
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Any idea what specifically they don't allow about that or what the wording in their specs is?
Adwilson3000
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Space is the problem. I have a building with 142 apartments. Then the problem of disconnects.at the meters.
Just wondering if someone had a novel way of dealing with this.
Just wondering if someone had a novel way of dealing with this.
electrofelon
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- Cherry Valley NY, Seattle, WA
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- Electrician
Oh ok yeah that many you're not going to want to build your own
.There is always sub metering if allowed in your area.....
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Adwilson3000
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No submetering allowed. That would be too easy!
Adwilson3000
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On another project, 24 unit buildings, the poco can only get me 600 amps per drop. So I will have 6 meters at each of 4 locations on each building. So we have a main disconnect for the 600 amp feed, then a wireway, then a disconnect and meter for each dwelling unit. This is going to cost a fortune in materials and labor.
farmantenna
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the wires before the meters could be accessed by someone. A lockable wireway could be used but still not approved. an underground splice handhole was rejected
farmantenna
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Update. Well, I guess we have NOT received any additional 2 gang metermains since I left the condo job 4 months ago and the utility has allowed a wireway with two single metermains. Milbank is really screwed up because I ordered 5 enclosures in late February and 13 more in April but have only received two. That is $&% up!
VirutalElectrician
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- Mpls, MN
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I ordered one of the new 2020 compliant Siemens 320A meter sockets with 2x200amp breakers and a Milbank 320A socket back in September. The Siemens came in in a month, still waiting on the Milbank.
The Square D QO NEMA 3R panels seem to be trickling in again now.
zbang
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Haven't they heard of seals? I often see wireways where one or two cover bolts have a seal through a hole.
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