On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:51:03 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
It
sounds like what happened in your case is that the new electricians determined
that because the service went under the house, that qualified as "entering
the house", which would require a disconnect near that point and that
they could not rely on the main panel one because it was too far away.

The more typical case is a meter on the outside, service conductors enter
the building near there, main panel inside has the disconnect. You have
maybe ~6ft of service conductors between the meter and panel. The disconnect
is the main breaker in the panel. The conductors between meter and panel
don't have overcurrent protection. AFAIK that has been and continues to
be code compliant. And AFAIK, outside, you can run those service conductors,

Ah. Now I remember.

No, the new electricians determined there was more than 10 feet between meter and panel. Under 10 feet, no protection required; over 10 feet, had to add the protection.

Wouldn't that apply to the pool as well? none of that feeder is protected.