Tornado vs Meter Pack

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MTW said:
A UL paper on " Reconditioned Equipment 2020 NEC Guide"
https://www.ul.com/news/reconditioned-electrical-equipment-2020-nec-guide
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So, 2020 NEC defines "Reconditioned" to prohibit repair of some non-operational equipment, including PANELBOARDS, except where "one-for-one" OEM-replacement parts are sourced. Routine maintenance of operating equipment is defined as "Normal Service", rather than "Reconditioned".

This would simplify any AHJ or Insurance inspection, to red tag any detectable modification to deadfront, cabinet, covers, hinges, guts, bus bars, or Micky-mouse mounting parts to cabinet interior.

This could also increase red tags for unclassified breakers, after-market grounding kits, or Knock-Outs, not provided by OEM?
 
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hbiss said:
So gone are the days of replacing panel "guts" because the bus is burned or damaged, for instance.
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I don't think that would be true. For the majority of panel boards the box, cover, and guts are all individually listed.
Replacing just a bus bar would not be allowed, but replacing the entire bus assembly does not appear to be prohibited.
 
jim dungar said:
I don't think that would be true. For the majority of panel boards the box, cover, and guts are all individually listed.
Replacing just a bus bar would not be allowed, but replacing the entire bus assembly does not appear to be prohibited.
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I agree, any part that is individually listed should be able to be replaced. Main breaker goes bad, they sell them as individual listed units in many cases.

Commercial panelboards, you can order factory assembled or sometimes you can just get the components and need to field assemble them. Occasionally some components only come factory assembled, but quite a few are sold for field assembly. Then once you figured out what inside components you need you can determine which cabinet and trim is needed to fit your other components.

My Square D distributor has been pretty good with those commercial panelboards at trying to ship the cabinet ASAP as often it is needed before any components inside are needed. I have also assembled many main breaker kits to add to a main lug panel - that it how they want to stock them, makes it simpler to custom build a panel than to have to stock so many possibilities or to have to wait for factory assembly.
 
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I ordered a new meter pack and went to do the install. When I opened up the new pack it was the wrong one. The new one was 180° from the old one. The old one fed from the left and the load/tenant side was on the right. The new one is opposite of that. The center/meter section was the same. I had my S/H call Siemens and they said the numbers were the same but they changed the layout. They no longer make the one that I need.

The underground feed from the tranny can't be moved without a new trench, and the load feeds are going through the brick wall and under the house and would mean re-feeding them.
Anyone know where I could get a pack like the existing or ideas on how to make this work?

I only checked Siemens and Eaton. Don't know if the Eaton is left side fed or not but was told it is smaller. Anyone know of another brand that might work?
 
Little Bill said:
Now I'm thinking the service wires and the load wires can't be in the same trough without a barrier.
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I think that is allowed. Only thing I am aware of is 230.7 which doesn't allow service and non service conductors in same raceway or cable.

Good chance POCO doesn't allow metered conductors in an enclosure with non metered conductors unless they can place restrictions on access, and they often still limit this to individual meter sockets and CT cabinets or maybe meter/mains and similar that have no access to unmetered conductors without breaking their lock/seal.
 
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I was able to find an Eaton meter pack that had a left side feed. It worked pretty well except some of the KOs didn't line up with existing conduit. But I was able to loosen the clamp on one of the 2" conduits and get it into the KO. It's a little crooked but better than trying to run new conduit or drilling through the stamped KOs.


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