Power to pole barn?

[bebster]

<font color="blue"> I just had 750 feet of underground, plus 700 feet main service put onto my old farmsite </font>

What wire size did you use for that length of a run?

 

[MikeD74T]

I had the same situation with the power company wanting to charge for commercial power. I solved the problem by planting a pole (at my own expense) between the house & barn with a new meter base & 2 disconnects. I then ran underground to both buildings.Now my power all comes thru one meter, at a residential rate, and I can kill the power to either building without pulling the meter. The cost recovery is pretty quick balanced against 2 meters and demand metering for commercial power. Often if you are upgrading the service the power company will eat some of this cost.

 

[PineRidge]

Guess I never knew just how fortunate that we were here in Ohio. 6 years ago when we built our home the electric utility asked us if we wanted the electric brought to our home which is roughly 700' from the road via telephone poles (overhead wiring) or would we rather have underground utilities. When I asked what the charges might be they said that it was on them. So I elected for the underground. They sank one pole close to the street to run the high voltage to then trenched the power line to within 75' of the house where they placed a transformer on a concrete pad. It didn't cost us a penny. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[rambler]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I just had 750 feet of underground, plus 700 feet main service put onto my old farmsite </font>

What wire size did you use for that length of a run? )</font>

The high-line coming in was a really different looking cable - big center conductor, huge, with 9 or so strands of wire surrounding it in the insulation.

For the longer runs of the 220v, it is some big wire. I forget now, if it's the 250 or even bigger. At a certain point, it's not measured by guage any more....... Then the short runs of 60 amp into the buildings is just 6 gauge.

--->Paul

 

[midlf]

Around here the utility would run in a 350mcm for a 200A service. For a 700' run it could be a 500mcm. The HV UG is anywhere from 2kv to 20kv, depending on the utilities primary voltage. The center is the hot conductor and the outside strands are the neutral.