Dlrwirelesspro
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I am a new member and stumbled across your site for hopefully a simple answer.
Backstory: I just bought a new house and we have a 40x30 detached garage on the property that currently has no electric service, puzzling I know. I am converting it into my own miniature home garage (I flip cars occasionally) and man cave in the unfinished upstairs 20x40. I am having a the utility company run a separate 200 amp service to it. The electric company is pulling their own wire 187' feet onto my property from the pole they set at the beginning of my property. I have to install the underground pvc 187' feet from the pole to the breaker box/disconnect I purchased (Eaton MBT48B200BTS) so they can pull their own wiring. I have to run pvc and my own wire another 100 feet to my detached garage and connect to a 200 amp breaker panel. The wire sizes I am using: two 3/0 thhn copper hot legs and one 2/0 thhn copper neutral. Ground rods I am using are copper 5/8" by 8' and the ground wire I am using is 4 gauge solid copper.
Questions: 1. Do I need to run two ground rods at the meter base/disconnect and at least one at the detached garage or vice versa? 2. Do I have to run a green stranded ground wire between the disconnect and the breaker panel if there are no breakers other than the disconnect in between the service and my building? Do I connect the bonding screw in the meter base/disconnect or the breaker panel in the detached garage?
Backstory: I just bought a new house and we have a 40x30 detached garage on the property that currently has no electric service, puzzling I know. I am converting it into my own miniature home garage (I flip cars occasionally) and man cave in the unfinished upstairs 20x40. I am having a the utility company run a separate 200 amp service to it. The electric company is pulling their own wire 187' feet onto my property from the pole they set at the beginning of my property. I have to install the underground pvc 187' feet from the pole to the breaker box/disconnect I purchased (Eaton MBT48B200BTS) so they can pull their own wiring. I have to run pvc and my own wire another 100 feet to my detached garage and connect to a 200 amp breaker panel. The wire sizes I am using: two 3/0 thhn copper hot legs and one 2/0 thhn copper neutral. Ground rods I am using are copper 5/8" by 8' and the ground wire I am using is 4 gauge solid copper.
Questions: 1. Do I need to run two ground rods at the meter base/disconnect and at least one at the detached garage or vice versa? 2. Do I have to run a green stranded ground wire between the disconnect and the breaker panel if there are no breakers other than the disconnect in between the service and my building? Do I connect the bonding screw in the meter base/disconnect or the breaker panel in the detached garage?