Mr. Serious
Senior Member
- Location
- Oklahoma, USA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
This may be a very easy question, but I haven't been doing this very long and want to make sure I'm not overlooking something.
A customer has hired me for a new service to his rural shop and house. He will ask the electric cooperative for underground wiring to his service point located between the shop and the house. So, I told him they would set a transformer there at the service point, and we would run wires from there to a main panel in the shop, and (in a later phase of the work) from the transformer to another main panel in the house.
So, from an electrician's perspective, this can be installed as two main services, right? Even though there is only one metering point at the transformer. And, the total amp rating of the two main breakers can be higher than the service size, as long as the total load calculation is less than the service size, right?
Or, do these things depend on the policy of the electric utility? The utility is Lake Region Electric Cooperative in Oklahoma.
A customer has hired me for a new service to his rural shop and house. He will ask the electric cooperative for underground wiring to his service point located between the shop and the house. So, I told him they would set a transformer there at the service point, and we would run wires from there to a main panel in the shop, and (in a later phase of the work) from the transformer to another main panel in the house.
So, from an electrician's perspective, this can be installed as two main services, right? Even though there is only one metering point at the transformer. And, the total amp rating of the two main breakers can be higher than the service size, as long as the total load calculation is less than the service size, right?
Or, do these things depend on the policy of the electric utility? The utility is Lake Region Electric Cooperative in Oklahoma.
