central1ny
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I am installing a new 200A meter socket for underground service and need some advice on how to route the wire inside the meter socket for the load side. As can be seen in the attached picture, the feeder cable will come in the left side of the socket and the load is going out the right side. The load neutral should be somewhat easy to install and the hot terminal on the left should not be a problem. But the load hot wire for the right bottom terminal is going to be a bear. As I see it, I have 2 options for routing this wire.
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Option #1 (Yellow Line): Break my hands and attempt to bend the 3/0 copper wire to the left of the terminal block and then up into the terminal block. The only question with this would be bend radius, too small of a radius?
Option #2 (Red Line): would be to run the wire up around the top terminals and then come all the way around back into the bottom right terminal. This would eliminate bend radius concerns. Any problems with this approach?
Any other options apart from starting over?
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Option #1 (Yellow Line): Break my hands and attempt to bend the 3/0 copper wire to the left of the terminal block and then up into the terminal block. The only question with this would be bend radius, too small of a radius?
Option #2 (Red Line): would be to run the wire up around the top terminals and then come all the way around back into the bottom right terminal. This would eliminate bend radius concerns. Any problems with this approach?
Any other options apart from starting over?
