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#115174 08/23/03 01:09 AM
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Here's an interesting installation. This is a homeowner installed (he's an EE) balanced power system. It's based on a used 480v to 240vct dry transformer. It's running with a 240v primary to get a 120vct secondary. The center tap of the secondary is grounded yielding a 60-0-60v volt system. Of course this 10kva transformer is only good for 5kva in this configuration.

So the "neutral" although it's really no longer a neutral is at 60v above ground as is the hot. The secondary is protected through double pole breakers and there is a 60a SPA GFCI on the transformer secondary. As long as GFCI is used as well as double pole breakers, this system is apparently OK under a little referenced section of NEC??? Not sure if that applies to residential use however and this was not a permitted job. There are a few other requirements such as the outlets must only be in technical equipment areas and somehow labeled as non-standard power.

The owner here is using it to run his rather elaborate home theater system. He even has a computer floor in his equipment room! All those Ell's are poking into the rear of the main house panel on the other side of the wall.

OK, pick it apart!

#115175 08/23/03 07:17 AM
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This looks like a clean job, my guess is that it's here in So CA., (due to the garage vent and an all-in-one service).
Article 647, though, which is a new one from the '02 Code, provides a limitation.
647.3(1) "The system is installed only in commercial or industrial occupancies".
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#115176 08/23/03 12:34 PM
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110.26 for the transformer encroaching into the working space of the disconnect.


Ryan Jackson,
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#115177 08/23/03 04:07 PM
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I wonder what the cost difference is between this and a ready made unit like an Equitech?

#115178 08/24/03 01:03 AM
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I have to ask why install this in a house?Sort of looks like a LIM system at.21ma

[This message has been edited by frank (edited 08-24-2003).]


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