soloelelctrician
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- Location
- MN
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
I have a question about wiring a genset for a farm that is fed from 2 services.
Customer bought a 250A genset to feed his farm. Main farm service is 400A. Opposite end of the farm has a separate, 200A service, from a separate utility transformer that feeds 2 hog barns. Hog barn was wired with a 200A 2pole ATS 10 years ago to feed barns in case of outage. Recently customer ran underground wire from main farm service to hog barn service and wants to power both services from the new genset located in the hog barn.
I understand that this genset should be installed as a SDS, which means the ATS and main farm service will need a neutral break. Cost is driving factor and it'd be about 5K to put in new ATS guts with a neutral break and a 3P manual switch for the farm. How important is it to have a neutral break option in this situation? Will a shared neutral path from the two services really be an issue?
Customer bought a 250A genset to feed his farm. Main farm service is 400A. Opposite end of the farm has a separate, 200A service, from a separate utility transformer that feeds 2 hog barns. Hog barn was wired with a 200A 2pole ATS 10 years ago to feed barns in case of outage. Recently customer ran underground wire from main farm service to hog barn service and wants to power both services from the new genset located in the hog barn.
I understand that this genset should be installed as a SDS, which means the ATS and main farm service will need a neutral break. Cost is driving factor and it'd be about 5K to put in new ATS guts with a neutral break and a 3P manual switch for the farm. How important is it to have a neutral break option in this situation? Will a shared neutral path from the two services really be an issue?