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How do I provide a 100 amp 2 pole breaker to feed an electric heater but they don't make one for my panel Should I use a fused disconnect from the meter base to feed this?
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∙ 15y ago
Absolutely not. Tapping voltage from the bottom of a meter base could be extremely dangerous. First of all you would have to get your power supplier to "pull the meter" just to get access to the bottom jaw lugs. That is a very big heater 24 kW. It sounds like it is time for a complete panel upgrade. New homes today are installing 200 amp 42 circuit panels. About pulling power from the bottom of the house meter, if you accidentally short the 240 volt incoming wires the only fuse to disconnect the power is the primary fuse at the transformer. Power companies fuse these Transformers high sometimes up to 600%. The wires coming to your house could draw up to 100,000 amps instantaneous before the fuse lets go. The arc flash will cook the meat off of your body.
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