service disconnect

[hillbilly]

The meter may be the service point. In this area it is for underground services, but not for overhead services. For overhead services, the service point is where the utility service drop connects to the wires comming out of the weatherhead. In the case cited by the original poster, I would expect that the meter would be the service point, but even if it is, the code does not require that the service disconnect be installed at the service point.
Even though the meter is at a structure, the conductors do not supply or pass through the structure, so I don't see any way the code requires a disconnect in this case.
Don
Don

Ditto!
steve

 

[al hildenbrand]

shouldn't those conductors, once they leave the meter, be protected by overcurrent protection, which would require a disconnect at the meter, before they reach the house?

This is the inspector's position.

Sparkync, what Code citation supports your idea?

 

[eprice]

sparkync,

Are you thinking of 240.21 which requires the overcurrent protection to be located at the point where the conductors receive their supply? If so, that section allows several situations where this general rule need not be followed. One of the instances where the general rule need not be followed is found in 240.21(D) for service entrance conductors.

 

[MarioSpina]

Concensus

Concensus

So, is the concensus here that if the inspector or the utility requires a disconnect in this type of installation, theat this disconnect must be the service disconnect?

In my business I run into this all the time and really have a problem if the N-G jumper can not be located inside of the building. I have been using 230.32(B) to get around this problem for now, but this might be gone in 2008, so I really need to resolve this once and for all.

-Mario