jsinclair
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- Pennsylvania
I have a local cabin owners association wishing to make much needed repairs to their customer owned distribution system. The local PoCo delivers 7.2kv to their meter pole and it is then customer owned from there.
Here is the setup:
Cabins are only used for about 4 months out of each year. Most of them are lights and receptacles only. Some have AC and electric ranges. The current distribution system consists of a single 100 KVA pole mount stepping down to 120/240 singe phase that is the distributed through the cabins overhead. The overhead wiring consists of randonly sized triplex and tri-wire installations. All of which needs replaced.
I am trying to get away from utilizing NEC 2005, 220 for the service calculations. I would like to utilize 550 instead. The cabins do not meet teh definition of a dwelling unit in my opinion, but they are also not mobile or manufactured homes either.
Has anyone else ran into this situation before? Can you reference the code you followed or any input from inspectors? (My local AHJ won't take a stance on the question at this point.)
Installation per article 220 will result in the escalation of the costs to the point the project will not be feasible and cost will trump safety.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Thanks All
Here is the setup:
Cabins are only used for about 4 months out of each year. Most of them are lights and receptacles only. Some have AC and electric ranges. The current distribution system consists of a single 100 KVA pole mount stepping down to 120/240 singe phase that is the distributed through the cabins overhead. The overhead wiring consists of randonly sized triplex and tri-wire installations. All of which needs replaced.
I am trying to get away from utilizing NEC 2005, 220 for the service calculations. I would like to utilize 550 instead. The cabins do not meet teh definition of a dwelling unit in my opinion, but they are also not mobile or manufactured homes either.
Has anyone else ran into this situation before? Can you reference the code you followed or any input from inspectors? (My local AHJ won't take a stance on the question at this point.)
Installation per article 220 will result in the escalation of the costs to the point the project will not be feasible and cost will trump safety.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Thanks All