On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 11:13:25 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:54:13 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 7/10/2020 11:01 PM, wrote:
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If it is on the line side of the meter, I suppose it is between the
PoCo and the worms, although you probably do own that service lateral.
FPL wants them in conduit.

Huh. Thought that was the whole point of there being UF-rated cable.

I have no idea what our local rural electric co-op specifies now, I'm
sure it's probably much more stringent than was 40+ years ago when Dad
was redoing the house and pulled the new feed underground and removed
the overhead wire to the house...

They want conduit, just for the extra protection.


The service isn't fused at the xformer either, is it?

No. There is some protection at the primary of the transformer but the
secondary has no protection until you get to the service disconnect
enclosure. (the protection is for the transformer, not the customer)
The utility should be able to tell you what your (momentary) available
fault current is but it is going to be thousands of amps. The limiting
factor might be the size of your service drop. A single phase service
on a 50KVA pole pig will usually be in the range of 14ka but they are
really supposed to give you a calculated result..