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I'm on very shaky ground here, and would appreciate someone more knowledgable than me helping out. There's almost certainly a NEMA or ASTM standard which calls out what I'm trying to describe. My application would be a stack next to the meter with tenant subpanels located in each tenant space. Fill them all with fully rated breakers or use the panel marking to permit using breakers with smaller SCCR ratings in downstream locations.

As opposed to industrial equipment, which is calculated, series ratings come right out of the factory. There is then a factory applied label which looks like the notice in section 110.22. If memory serves me correctly, I've used these with Square d QO and C-H BR combinations. Those notices give the series ratings for specific downstream breakers. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think I've seen square d and C-H products both call out words similar to "Requires a minimum of 20 feet (6.10 mm) of cable between meter center and downstream load center or panelboard."
 
peteo said:
What I read was,

"or run 10' of pipe to a j-box and then back down to the LCC"

which looked like a typical factory 20 foot series rating out of a panel. No mystery.

Dad lives in Surprise, a suburb of Phoenix. Like L.A., the residential inspectors there are expected to take on the entire job. One of dad's neighbors built a guest house last year, common in their subdivision. When the inspector came to visit for the final, the next door neighbor showed up with a tape measure. They found that the slab extended two inches across the property line. That poor inspector was 'permitted' to pay for a demo crew along with the cost of rebuilding. Have a little heart...
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I got to call Shenanigans here!. It's not the inspectors job to do a survey of the property and the building. It is the job of the GC and or surveyor. There are laws that protect municipalities and their employees (i.e. inspectors) from liability in the case of errors and omissions. during both plan review and inspection. Building design is an engineers job. Building a building is a contractors job. If they do it wrong they are responsible. If I had to survey every job I inspected I would never get any inspections done.
 
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