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Service Conductor size #175044
02/20/08 03:09 PM 02/20/08 03:09 PM
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Yoopersup  Offline OP
Member 		Joined: Mar 2003
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Michigan
Total Load 3200 amps , Switch gear rated at 4000 amps

9 sets of 3-500 Kcmil & 1-4/0 neutral = 3420 amps.

Load 3200 Wire 3420 gear 4000 amps.

No main Six 800 amp switches

Legal per 230.80& 230.90 a EXCEPTION 3

READ PAGE 150 & 152 2005 NEC CODE HANDBOOK

Service Conductors Adquate for Load, Gear rated Above Load
Should be good to go Right.

Whatca say guys???
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Re: Service Conductor size [Re: Yoopersup] #175045
02/20/08 05:40 PM 02/20/08 05:40 PM
Tom  Offline
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Posts: 1,044
Shinnston, WV USA
Provided that your 3200 amp load is 125% of the continuous load plus 100% of the non-continuous load, I'd say OK.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Re: Service Conductor size [Re: Tom] #175046
02/20/08 06:50 PM 02/20/08 06:50 PM
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Yoopersup  Offline OP
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Michigan
That is the way it was Calculated.

Re: Service Conductor size [Re: Yoopersup] #175057
02/21/08 12:13 PM 02/21/08 12:13 PM
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Alan Nadon  Offline
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Elkhart, IN. USA
With six disconnects, and as calculated, it is Code compliant. Good to go. smile

Alan--
If it was easy, anyone could do it.

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