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#20879 01/25/03 02:50 PM
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thank you for your thoughts on this, i'll be looking at the calcs and job site this next week.

but from the 1-line it looks wrong that the 800a s-board that was fed with 8-350's is now going to be fed from a 225a main breaker
for the whole system and 4/0 coppers to feed 3 panels rated 300a, 300a, and 200a. how can the designer do that? [not to mention the size issue of landing them/don's question]

#20880 01/25/03 11:32 PM
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I would look very closely at the load calcs. Also check with the poco and see what the historical load/month has been. This may have been over built for a future expansion that did not occur. I suspect that those areas will most likely have the answers-if the designer did not screw up his/her load calcs.
Sometimes owners want to do things as cheaply as possible an try to hard to save money. If designers cannot or will not tell- them sorry that will not work- you get drawings that are questionable.
Good luck on this job

[This message has been edited by nesparky (edited 01-25-2003).]


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#20881 01/25/03 11:53 PM
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It is a code violation to have a 225A main serving a 300A distribution breaker, since they can never be coordinated.


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#20882 01/26/03 01:36 PM
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>>>It is a code violation to have a 225A main serving a 300A distribution breaker, since they can never be coordinated.<<<

i know i'm going to sound stupid, but where does it say that? 240.12 tlaks about coordination for orderly shutdown, 110.10 says to cordinate to rpotect equipment. but i dont see why a smaller ocpd cant protect larger ocpd's or equipment. inconvenient to the user, but is it a violation? thanks

#20883 01/26/03 01:47 PM
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What code section requires OCPD coordination for general occupancies?
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