Where would you place the conduit?

[jives]

I'll be soon digging a trench to lay wire and conduit from house to garage subpanel. This is the business side of my house. On the left the 3 boxes stacked vertically are for the solar system. The middle meter is for the main power coming in underground from the street. On the right are telecommunications also coming in under the ground from the street.

Somewhere in there I need to bring the wires out of the house and down the side of the house in schedule 80 conduit. It seems the only reasonable choice is between the main meter and the telecommunications. Are there other options, better options?

Thanks.

 

[dw1]

I guess your panel is directly behind the meter, is that area inside finished drywall? your options are pretty much limited with minimal destruction. If the feed comes into the back of the top of your panel, you could find a lower knock out to feed back out to your new building.


Opps, just looked at the picture again, that wont work might have to cut the drywall inside to get this in, but it shouldnt be to bad, Ha, thats what the other 2 pvc conduits do, we are to late.
Take a pic of the inside and post it

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Can u post pics of the otherside/inside of the wall...

What if u used an LB and came out below the solar disconnect?

 

[dw1]

Can u post pics of the otherside/inside of the wall...

What if u used an LB and came out below the solar disconnect?

I bet the LB for the solar disc is at the bottom of the panel, might have to LB both sides. Is the other side a finished wall?

 

[Caman]

I wouldn't want to dig and try to miss all that stuff. Do I see a gas regulator in the corner as well?

Is this the side nearest the garage? If not could you run the wire to the side closest and jump out there? Might mean less digging as well.

If this were the only area my first location if possible would be under the solar disconnect. If that isn't possible I would look at putting it somewhere around the telecom pipe.

 

[zmaxmotorsports]

Can u post pics of the otherside/inside of the wall...

What if u used an LB and came out below the solar disconnect?

 

[volleyball]

I'd move the communication wires further to the right. You want air space between those parallel lines.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Are you really going to run that new conduit on the side of the house ? If you run it down to ground and bury you probably snake it behind the communications cable conduit.

What if u used an LB and came out below the solar disconnect?

... or just the other side of the main conduit.

 

[barnjunkie]

I think the inside of your panel and the stuff in the walls will dictate where you'll come in. You can move over the phone line if necessary.

 

[CNGsaves]

+1 to move the Telco over to right so you'll have room. Also the telco could use a little cleanup anyway with the coiled up wire !!

 

[txvwnut]

If you could get a double feed meter base maybe you could go out the side of it between the telcom mechanical and the meter base.

 

[jives]

I've been away from my computer for a couple of days, but here is the picture of inside the mechanical room with the electrical panel.

Telecommunications enter in on the left. The outlet below the panel was installed by the solar guys to plug in the wifi solar monitoring system. As a point of note, on the far left are manifolds/pipes/valves for the radiant floor heating system. Top right is the exhaust for the combi propane boiler. The duct tape on the wall is our temporary fix from a carpenter bee infestation. The little buggers got in through an access hole around the exhaust vent and very nearly chewed their through the drywall into the house.

Does this help?

 

[Mustang51js]

Looks like you have plenty of room on right side of meter,I'm guessing the pipes from solar come into the lower right corner when you look at the panel

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Youll have to cut some drywall. I would come out the left side of the panel/right side of the meter....

 

[Mustang51js]

Youll have to cut some drywall. I would come out the left side of the panel/right side of the meter....

Idk,if that white pipe goes to that vent outside,that would put the panel behind the telephone box. But then the solar pipes look like they wouldn't go into panel directly,unless they cut Sheetrock already and patched it up

 

[jives]

I forgot to add that that is a propane feed on the far right, which is also the side on which the garage is located. I am assuming I will be digging under the propane line. And yes, I'll be cutting drywall, and as the earlier pictures shows, the drywall has already been hacked up.

The dryer vent comes out through a partition wall on the inside of the house. Washer/dryer are on the right of the vent, in another room. The propane line enters the house and hugs the left side of the partition wall.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

What is the white pipe in the interior pic?

 

[Charles (in GA)]

What is the white pipe in the interior pic?

I think he indicated it was an "exhaust vent", assuming its for a clothes dryer.

Charles

 

[jives]

On the inside photo the white upper left "vent" is actually the flue for the combi boiler. On the outside photo, the white vertical tube is the gutter downspout.

So, it seems the best course of action is to move the telecom to the right (outside photo) and run the conduit between the telecom and the meter.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Whats wrong with coming out right below where the feed for the solar disconnect goes into the panel?

 

[jives]

Whats wrong with coming out right below where the feed for the solar disconnect goes into the panel?

That is an option. Only that the trench will need to cross over the top of the main service. I guess not a big deal.