Wood_Butcher_Dav
Gold Member
MossRoad said:Your meter base has a main? Odd...
All the power around here comes from the power company, into the meter base, out of the meter base, then into the service disconnect, then into any sub-panels. Our main breaker panel is considered a sub-panel since we have a service disconnect between it and the meter. If your main breaker pannel is within 10 feet of the meter base, you are allowed to skip the main disconnect as they will consider the main breakers in the first panel the service disconnect.
My terminology might be wrong. The box at my pole has overhead feed wires, meter is in the top section, bottom section has 200 amp main breaker and then below this is terminal blocks (correct term?) that feed my house and shop underground. This is where the generator was hooked to after the mains were shut off.
Dave