"Steve Barker" wrote in message
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On 7/9/2010 11:35 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:39:21 +0000 (UTC), Wayne Whitney
wrote:

On 2010-07-09, Steve wrote:

And it's all the same building. Actually, the panels are
only about
8 feet apart, but in different rooms.

gfretwell is exactly right about the need for the disconnects
to be
grouped, I missed that. Whoever installed the second panel
installed
a violation which should be fixed. So the second panel should
be
converted to a subpanel of the first main panel, which would
require a
4-wire feeder from the first main panel. Hopefully it
wouldn't be too
hard to do since it is only 8 feet away.

Cheers, Wayne

Bear in mind, I also said I would not lose any sleep over the
way it
is done now. This is a technical violation but I don't see a
huge
safety issue since the service disconnect is on the pole. The
fire
department would pull the meter anyway and the homeowner knows
what he
has.

I'm not a thinking that a 50+ year old installation is under
much code restriction. I didn't even mention that the first
MAIN panel is on the outside of the house. LMAO! No one's too
worried about the small stuff here in this area.

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Here in Southern Nevada, there is a combined meter socket, main
and breaker box on the OUTSIDE of almost every home in the valley.
Unless the home is so large that several inside load centers are
needed, you have to go outside to get to the breaker box.

Nonny

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it's just not worth
the effort of chewing
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