Standby generator ATS install

[vlocci]

I'm getting ready to start the installation of a Kohler standby generator with whole house automatic transfer switch (ATS)

My electric service is underground and after arriving in my basement enters a meter box and is then fed into my main breaker panel.

In practice, the ATS needs to connect between the meter and my existing panel, thereby allowing either generator or utility power to be delivered to the house.

Due to the location of the existing panel (it is connected to the meter socket by way of a 1 inch long hub) I cannot readily locate the ATS between meter and panel.

Is it to code to run the feed from the meter socket through the existing panel and into the ATS. (i.e. can I use the existing panel as a conduit for feeding the meter (utility) conductors?)

If not, the alternative would be to use one of the knockouts on the meter panel to run a seperate conduit run, which is not the end of the world. Going through the existing panel, however, would result in a cleaner install.

What I'm looking to do is

ATS <-> CB panel <-> Utility meter

where the utility meter run would go through the CB panel and into the ATS

Hopefully this makes sense as explaining it in print is not as easy as a sketch.

Vin

 

[JoeFin]

You not supposed to use the existing panel as a raceway

 

[Mustang51js]

I would run the pipe off the meter and install the transfer switch on the outside of the house,then out the back of transfer switch to panel. Just remember that your panel is now a sub panel which means you also need to separate grounds and nuetrals, also grounding wires to meter and rods need to go into the transfer switch now. If you run the wires through the panel which isn't allowed you will also have power going through that is not on a breaker and tough to get all those wires through one pipe,you would be having 7 wires going through that pipe.