I would think they should allow you to fill the entrance condulet with
silicone to exclude water. Are there no electrical supply houses in your
area?
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RBM (remove this) wrote:
While you certainly need to adhere to the AHJ in your local, but,
personally
I'd use a 2" pvc standpipe into the meter and 2" sch 80 from meter to
panel
which is technically equal to steel, then I'd use #2/0 copper THWN as
THHN
is not NEC compliant in wet locations and copper will last longer and
it's
easy to pull. You will however need a mortgage to buy it right now

RBM:

I like that idea a lot. A. smaller wire B. not depending on one-shot
inaccessible dope for corrosion resistance. Unfortunately the local
electric suppliers don't stock even Cu THWN that big as it would be a
rare sale at best ...there's mostly cable services around here, too.
Graybar might have it, but I don't know how small a piece they'd be
willing to sell. I will check tomorrow.

Of course, I'd still need to use cable from the meter to the
box...unless I could convince the inspector otherwise. Cu SE cable is
a completely mythical beast around here, even ore so than #2/0 Cu, and
if I'm going to use #4/0 Al for that I might as well use it for the
mast, as they both end up buried in the meter pan. Hmf. It is a
quandary.

Cordially yours:
Gerard P.