RBM wrote:
Correct, only the main feeder(s) to the panelboard(s) qualify. If he has
multiple service disconnects, and one of them fed the garage panel, it would
qualify, but not if his garage feeder came off of a breaker from a panel
which was on the load side of a service disconnect
"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "RBM" rbm2(remove
wrote:
In a situation where the service disconnect is in the main service panel,
there is no main feeder
And feeders from the main panel to subpanels don't qualify? As described
in
the Code, it seems that they would.


"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "RBM" rbm2(remove
wrote:
That table only applies to dwelling services and their "main power
feeder"
not to feeders in general

"For application of this section, the main power feeder shall be the
feeder(s)
between the main disconnect and the lighting and appliance branch
circuit
panelboard(s)." [Art. 310.15(B)(6)]

Note the deliberate inclusion of the plural in feeder(s) and
panelboard(s).

Since the feeder in question runs between the service entrance panel
(which,
in a single family dwelling, is the location of the main disconnect) and
a
branch circuit panelboard, it appears to me to qualify.

As always, though, the local inspection authority has the final say, and
it
would be best to ask their opinion -- since, in the end, neither your
opinion
nor mine matters at all if the local inspection authority has other
ideas.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.



The section in question covers only dwelling units. A detached garage
is not a dwelling unit. Residential outbuildings of any description that
are not in fact dwelling units must be supplied with conductors sized in
accordance to table 310.16.
--
Tom Horne

"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous
for general use." Thomas Alva Edison