FrankPlumber
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I'm building a new home and I'm wondering about the brand of electrical panel ( Siemens, GE, etc ).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Any suggestions?
Thanks
When you say 40 spaces, is it 40 breakers double pole which would means 80 breakers single pole or it's 40 breakers single pole?
Thanks a lot
That's what I suspected. They were connected to the box above the old panel (now gone), and with a little imagination you could see a connection to an antenna of some kind on the right, maybe. I was wondering if the OP's area had a drive-by meter-reading program of some kind. Probably not, since it's been removed, but the service hasn't been hooked up yet, so maybe it'll all be replaced.The "sense coils" are CT's current transformers for remote monitoring of current, possible KW also depending on PTs (Potential or voltage) connections
Brand of panel aside, if you think you might ever want a whole-house (or part-house) backup generator, now is the time to install the wiring for it. Typically the transfer switch switches to a subset of circuits to keep live (unless you do in fact install a true whole-house unit). Wiring those circuits on a separate subpanel now will make the eventual installation much easier.I'm building a new home...
What were those sense coils around the service entrance cables used for? Some kind of remote billing, maybe?
Thanks; I guess if they didn't know they had one, it wasn't enough of a nuisance to worry about. How much money did they save?I can't remember the number of service calls I've gone to where the customer didn't even know they had a load controller.
Brand of panel aside, if you think you might ever want a whole-house (or part-house) backup generator, now is the time to install the wiring for it. Typically the transfer switch switches to a subset of circuits to keep live (unless you do in fact install a true whole-house unit). Wiring those circuits on a separate subpanel now will make the eventual installation much easier.
This is awkward, but...
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