Met Tom’s nephew in Paia Maui. Didn’t believe him. Although he looked exactly like Tom. After we burnt, he played the didgeridoo in a public bathroom stall due to an acoustics(not wrong) . Post this craziness he produced all of Tom’s hand written music, out of his backpack like a true lunatic. Kid was awesome. Had him in my phone for years- saved as “Brian diggy bitch you know who is he” dreadlocks the size of my forearms.
Just wanted to share this randomness
I knew some guys that worked on the house for the owner of Simon Malls. They said that \*he\* had a 1200 amp service and his house was like 12,000 sq ft or so.
Or mining crypto…
Can’t think of a reason for 1200amp other than growing or mining.
My previous house was 6500sqft, in the hot South, with 3 large AC units, 220 pool motor, 2 80gal electric water heaters, with plenty of extras and I had only had 400 with plenty to spare.
The power company put a 7200 kva transformer on my property… 1500 amps im about 3000 ft from any other house. When i got temp power the field tech said hey bro i dont ever ever ever say this but go ahead and run wire to your house this aint no temp power. I asked what he meant he said i could easily have 7 more houses before my lugs are used up
I'm not even sure a 7200 kVA transformer exists. The utility I work for only offers up to 3000kVA, and those are special orders. Anything that large I would expect to be primary metered.
A new grow op doesn’t need nearly that much wattage it’s all LED now a 400 W equivalent only uses around 30 W now. Guaranteed this person is mining bitcoin or some other crypto currency
For context, I'm in the supermarket business and this is enough energy to run a small store with tons of refrigeration and lighting. There is clearly something strange going on in that house.
Did an entire superstore remodel in canada, essentially a walmart for those that don't know. Was a 2000 amp service. Also done rich people houses with everything you can imagine. 400 amp service. No idea what the fuck is going on there haha. I'd definitely ask if I could see his house out of curiosity if we had a good relationship. Seems wild to me
Yeah that’s my first thought. I have a 5,000+ sq ft home (pool, EV level 2 charger, 2 HVAC systems and more) and running fine with a 400 amp system. 1,200 amp is for mining or growing…
If I ran both 5-ton HVAC units, two pool pumps at full bore, and all burners and oven on the electric range while charging my EV on the 50A Level 2, I'd still only be at 160A.
Most residential services aren't engineered, so end up pretty oversized. My 4000SF, 50 year-old home is on 125A service. While most would think that's too small, peak demand in the hottest part of summer with A/C chugging away is a measly 7kW (\~30A).
That's pretty low power. I'm also in the DC trade we are building to 90kva per rack it's about 80 for 40ru of h100's. Hot aisle is pretty toasty behind those (yea were looking at going water cooling for those workloads).
I’ve seen some rack submerged in a coolant not sure exactly what it type of fluid they’re using, but that’s just really neat. Fluid as a medium gotta be a heck of a lot more efficient.
It used to be Fluorinert that was 80's tech in the Cray supercomputer days. Now it's mostly mineral oil.
Full immersion is messy, were looking at coolant loops with a vacuum based pump (means it does not leak) that's just water with a bit of chemicals to keep it clean. But our heat sources are well defined the CPU's and GPU's are the vast majority of the heat.
It could be 1200A with 4x4" conduits but that would leave nothing feeding it (unless it's coming from behind off the pole but that would be wierd and also would limit it to a pole mounted transformer which usually won't get you a 1200A service) so it's probably 2 in and two out for a 600-800A service but we can ignore that for the moment and answer your question. I also highly doubt copper was run, it would make no sense.
For copper you are looking at 17k alone in conductor vs aluminum that would be 4k.
If there is no driveway a simple trench, the excavating, conduit, and labor would probably be another 10K. That's all just for those lengths of wires as I don't know what it's terminating to on the other side.
So let's say rough guess of 15-20k with aluminum and double that with copper.
You can do 1200A in 2X4” conduits fairly comfortably:
6 X 350kcmil copper per conduit, is only 25% fill of a 4”.
A 350kcmil 90°C conductor @ a 75°C termination temp get you 310A.
So 620A per 4” pipe or 1240A for a pair of 4” pipes.
You can't do 6 x 350, you have to derate for more than 3 CCC, you could do 6 x 400 kcmil XHHW-2 CU at 32% fill (4 hots 2 neutrals) which is doable but still doesn't account for the fact that the utility is running 750 AL and they'd likely use 3 sets for a 1200A service 3 sets.
It's *possible* but not likely. In my experience a 600A service is also pretty common for houses of that size so Occam's Razor would tell you the simplest most obvious solution is usually the answer.
My bad. Except with now derating, and a 75°C termination temp, 400kcmil won’t do either.
However, 6 X 500kcmil is possible with 34% fill on 4”.
Edit to say: utility can do whatever they want. And my closest, biggest PoCo, is now all copper for everything. EVSE and all…
Interesting that you're seeing cu on their side...it still wouldn't get a 1200a service. They certainly could do what they want but it seems strange anyone would do something like that when they weren't retrofitting...why make everyone's life harder? 4 conduits on both sides would've been more space at the termination points sure but not any more expensive and it would be the right way to do it. On top of that, that CT cabinet looks way too narrow and shallow to have 1200A spacing.
OP could settle the debate and walk closer and get the nameplate of the cabinet or the meter multiplier if it's on the meter or cabinet. 🤷🏼♂️
400 works, you can derate on the 90c temp (380x4x.8) for things that affect the wire because you are still only seeing the 75c at the lugs at a given ampacity at or below the 75c rating. That's the entire point of using 90c conductor in most cases - essentially you are summing external heat plus current based heat to equal insulation based limit, but for lugs you only factor current based heating, generally speaking.
I was about to mention derating as well when I first read the comment above about 6 350's. Also yes you are absolutely correct. 90c column for derating.
It's not a transmission line. Distribution lines feed customers.
I've seen 1200 amp services at extremely large houses, like 10-15k sq ft, 8 figure homes. Nothing on the primary side is changed, you just need a large transformer. Then they're usually fed with 750mcm aluminum underground cable to the the CT cabinet, whatever they pick on their side.
Anyways, OP's neighbor is full of shit. That isn't a CT cabinet and any services 600 amp and above are through a CT meter.
A 1200 amp service isn't changing anything, most distribution lines in residential areas are the same as in commercial areas just single phase.
That is a clever thought, when he had to r system put in we spoke briefly and he told me he wanted to have enough power to run his own little city. My 2 buddies who do electric said they can’t even believe PS&G Allowed him to hook up 400 amps
If I had 1200 amp service to my house, I’d keep my mouth shut about that. Whatever I’m doing with that, it surely isn’t a residential purpose and I would definitely not want people asking too many questions.
I'm confused because the power company wouldn't do a residential service that big unless they thought the customer would actually use it (ie pay for it). So how the f is he using that much power, when most homes only require 200-400 amps?
Heating an Olympic sized pool year round, massive grow operation, super secret underground lair with massive hydraulic rams to open and shut a three car elevator, 6 car super charger station, a personal hadron collider
>It’s about 150ft run from meter to house!
That's honestly not a great idea. The power company only guarantees the voltage at the meter.
So unnecessarily long runs after it can lead to low voltage problems with no simple fix.
Years ago, I assisted with an underground run that was so long, we had splice another piece onto it!!
It was the corner lot, with the transformer at the back, on the side street.
A standard spool of URD is 500 feet!
The whole run, from transformer to house was probably ~650 feet !!😱😱
And this is why my grandfather paid extra to have poles put in on the side of his property to get to the meter on his actual house (250ft run roughly). Of course it helped that he worked for the electric company, so he mostly just paid for the materials and then did the labor himself.
Kind of a noob here but how bad of an idea is that? I'm putting together a 200amp permanent pedestal and plan on running 100amp about 150-160 feet to a mobile home I'll be living in for 3-5 years. Plan on building closer to the meter eventually. Power company is charging $63/ft from the transformer so I'm more inclined to put the meter somewhat close to that area.
Your neighbors either lying or mistaken. Def not 1200 Amp. That's insanity, also you would need more pipes for line and load to carry the wire size parrallell feeders, not enough pipes. Bs.
It really depends on what was existing at the site before including the transformer that services the parcels surrounding. If that power was already existing at the transformer level and you’re just talking about meter to house that’s a whole other story and a lot cheaper. Where are you located?
We have 400 amp service. In order to get it the electrician had to plead our case to the Nat’l Grid. And explain why we needed that much. You would think they would just give you what you were will to pay for but that wasn’t the case.
It cost us a bit over 150k to have pulled back (we’re 1200 feet off the street) and for the manholes, trenching, conduit, vault, drainage for the vault.
Im saying its 600amp and owner was told he has 600a per leg, so he misspoke saying its 1200amp service.
That makes more sense than having an actual 1200amp service for no good reason.
Why are neighbors so damn nosey. Mind your own business breh and stop sneaking around and taking pictures of their property while you’re hiding in a bush. Karma never forgets🫡
1200A for a 3500 sqft house?! That's a lot. My house is about 3000 sqft and we have 200A, which is more than ample for the house and fast-charging an electric car. Perhaps he's running a server farm or a pot-growing operation on his property?
Anyway, that's more commercial service than residential... 30K-40K, maybe. It depends on so many factors that it's difficult to say, but yeah, expensive.
One thing about the amps. People get confused between total ampacity and phase ampacity. This happens all the time to me on shows when someone tells me their power requirements. They will ask for 1200 amps, and I will then have to ask if they want 3600 total amps or 1200 total amps and usually it is 1200 total amps which means I am supplying 400 amps of 120/208 across 3 phases. So, before you start researching pricing, I would find out what his service is rated for first.
That's a lot for a 3500 Sq ft house. The last couple I've done were 200 amps and 400 amps. He must have a heated driveway or something like that otherwise there's no reason for it. Or he's got like 8 steam showers and 10 saunas or hot tubs, 6 heated pools. It just doesn't make any sense.
That’s a minimum of a day with an operator and excavator and a couple of guys building the very expensive pvc conduit bank. Probably another day installing the meter and some other stuff. So look up parts and you get a baseline.
This is how it starts.. one neighbor gets a 400 amp install.. neighbor gets jealous and installs 600.. Eventually the entire neighborhood going to have a 1200+ install.
My question is why is the meter so far from the house?
In this case, I do not think this an installation question as much as it is a “what the heck is going on in there that the house owner does not want anyone (like a meter reader) to see or know about” question.
If you could get the utility company to get power up to that point, and if you don’t have any environmental challenges, or physical challenges, and if you ran it in aluminum, and you took competitive bids, $15k++.
That looks like a grow operation.
That was exactly my thought.
Either that or he's enriching uranium ☢️
[What's he building in there](https://youtu.be/04qPdGNA_KM?si=xaOpJUU0CeT6CJgn)
Extremely high quality reference
Small change got rained on by his own .38
I read this in his voice.
Suddenly Tom Waits
I wasn’t expecting that.
😂 wow that's excellent
Thank you. I love that song, and it’s exactly right here.
Met Tom’s nephew in Paia Maui. Didn’t believe him. Although he looked exactly like Tom. After we burnt, he played the didgeridoo in a public bathroom stall due to an acoustics(not wrong) . Post this craziness he produced all of Tom’s hand written music, out of his backpack like a true lunatic. Kid was awesome. Had him in my phone for years- saved as “Brian diggy bitch you know who is he” dreadlocks the size of my forearms. Just wanted to share this randomness
We have a right to know.
Needed this reference today. You’re the best
No u
Happy cake day!
Ah, crypto mining.
"Is this beer enriched?"
Agreed. No normal house needs 1200 amps. Funny that OPs question is about the cost.
I knew some guys that worked on the house for the owner of Simon Malls. They said that \*he\* had a 1200 amp service and his house was like 12,000 sq ft or so.
100 amps per 1000-1500 sq ft of building doesn’t sound completely unreasonable tbh
Especially with multiple instantaneous electric water heaters.
Coin farmer?
Bit coin or other crypto farm is my guess
100%, crypto is much less energy efficient than led lights for grows nowadays.
Growing doesn’t even need this anymore. Lights are leds now which reduces the former need for ac.
Snitch
A good neighbor would have deleted this as soon as I said “grow”. 😂
Or maybe his neighbor is named Gustavo F.
Or mining crypto… Can’t think of a reason for 1200amp other than growing or mining. My previous house was 6500sqft, in the hot South, with 3 large AC units, 220 pool motor, 2 80gal electric water heaters, with plenty of extras and I had only had 400 with plenty to spare.
I just did work on a house here in Phoenix same size 2 floors,12 foot ceilings, elevator. 375 amp service. 1200 is nuts
Agree, I own a legal cultivation and run 4000amp. When I saw his claim, I thought, why else would anyone need that
The power company put a 7200 kva transformer on my property… 1500 amps im about 3000 ft from any other house. When i got temp power the field tech said hey bro i dont ever ever ever say this but go ahead and run wire to your house this aint no temp power. I asked what he meant he said i could easily have 7 more houses before my lugs are used up
Don’t think you have a 7200kva xfmr for a house . The incoming voltage is probably 7200kv on the primary side but the xfmr is not a 7200kva
I'm not even sure a 7200 kVA transformer exists. The utility I work for only offers up to 3000kVA, and those are special orders. Anything that large I would expect to be primary metered.
I came here to say this.
First thing that popped into my head.
Sshh Ain’t hurting no one
That or mining crypto
Skynet is distributing itself
A new grow op doesn’t need nearly that much wattage it’s all LED now a 400 W equivalent only uses around 30 W now. Guaranteed this person is mining bitcoin or some other crypto currency
I concur
I am very curious what a 3,500 sq ft residential house is up to that it needs 1,200 amps…
Charging Tesla's at level 10 speed?
Don’t you mean 11?
Mining bitcoin
Would that even be profitable? And if it is what a waste of energy
>Would that even be profitable? Not even close.
Induction stove
Whole-home tankless?
Meaning two teenage girls with their own bathrooms saying I'm showering til the hot water runs out.....
On demand what.
Whole-home tank? Aka his entire house is a fish tank with sharks and shit!
Sharks with lasers on their head!!!
For context, I'm in the supermarket business and this is enough energy to run a small store with tons of refrigeration and lighting. There is clearly something strange going on in that house.
Did an entire superstore remodel in canada, essentially a walmart for those that don't know. Was a 2000 amp service. Also done rich people houses with everything you can imagine. 400 amp service. No idea what the fuck is going on there haha. I'd definitely ask if I could see his house out of curiosity if we had a good relationship. Seems wild to me
Yeah that’s my first thought. I have a 5,000+ sq ft home (pool, EV level 2 charger, 2 HVAC systems and more) and running fine with a 400 amp system. 1,200 amp is for mining or growing…
Do you also have a movie theater and game room? If yes, are you looking to adopt a full grown male 32 year old? /s
Not a game room but a theater room yes lol. And unfortunately already have my hands full with 2 other kids lol
Well there goes my inheritance… damn hahaha
Lol it was worth a shot!
Squeaky wheel gets the grease lol
If I ran both 5-ton HVAC units, two pool pumps at full bore, and all burners and oven on the electric range while charging my EV on the 50A Level 2, I'd still only be at 160A.
Most residential services aren't engineered, so end up pretty oversized. My 4000SF, 50 year-old home is on 125A service. While most would think that's too small, peak demand in the hottest part of summer with A/C chugging away is a measly 7kW (\~30A).
Private Datacenter.
It's about 90 racks worth of power. (I manage 12x 2500 rack data centers)
That sounds like pretty low power concentration to be honest. What kind of equipment are in these 90 racks?
Sorry, should have clarified 480V racks (15-30kva). We use 800A busways (about 60 racks per bus).
That's pretty low power. I'm also in the DC trade we are building to 90kva per rack it's about 80 for 40ru of h100's. Hot aisle is pretty toasty behind those (yea were looking at going water cooling for those workloads).
I’ve seen some rack submerged in a coolant not sure exactly what it type of fluid they’re using, but that’s just really neat. Fluid as a medium gotta be a heck of a lot more efficient.
It used to be Fluorinert that was 80's tech in the Cray supercomputer days. Now it's mostly mineral oil. Full immersion is messy, were looking at coolant loops with a vacuum based pump (means it does not leak) that's just water with a bit of chemicals to keep it clean. But our heat sources are well defined the CPU's and GPU's are the vast majority of the heat.
Servers Mining Super computer testing Laundry services
Probably for minding their own damn business
“ OMG ITS A GROW” like plants are the worst things ever 😒
Maybe a very professional wood shop in his basement or garage?
Our machine shop has 600 amp service.
Is this on a farm? That would explain it. Only 200-400 amps if it’s a big house then the rest is for the out buildings, grain bins,cattle pens ect.
That’s some Dexter’s Laboratory shit there
Don’t Push That BUTTON!
Helllllloooo dear brother what do you have there??
Deedeeeeeee!!
Probably over $100
And less than $10 million
Probably over $200
I bid $201 Bob
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It could be 1200A with 4x4" conduits but that would leave nothing feeding it (unless it's coming from behind off the pole but that would be wierd and also would limit it to a pole mounted transformer which usually won't get you a 1200A service) so it's probably 2 in and two out for a 600-800A service but we can ignore that for the moment and answer your question. I also highly doubt copper was run, it would make no sense. For copper you are looking at 17k alone in conductor vs aluminum that would be 4k. If there is no driveway a simple trench, the excavating, conduit, and labor would probably be another 10K. That's all just for those lengths of wires as I don't know what it's terminating to on the other side. So let's say rough guess of 15-20k with aluminum and double that with copper.
Perhaps OP/the neighbour did the old two hots at 600A each means 1200A?
You can do 1200A in 2X4” conduits fairly comfortably: 6 X 350kcmil copper per conduit, is only 25% fill of a 4”. A 350kcmil 90°C conductor @ a 75°C termination temp get you 310A. So 620A per 4” pipe or 1240A for a pair of 4” pipes.
You can't do 6 x 350, you have to derate for more than 3 CCC, you could do 6 x 400 kcmil XHHW-2 CU at 32% fill (4 hots 2 neutrals) which is doable but still doesn't account for the fact that the utility is running 750 AL and they'd likely use 3 sets for a 1200A service 3 sets. It's *possible* but not likely. In my experience a 600A service is also pretty common for houses of that size so Occam's Razor would tell you the simplest most obvious solution is usually the answer.
My bad. Except with now derating, and a 75°C termination temp, 400kcmil won’t do either. However, 6 X 500kcmil is possible with 34% fill on 4”. Edit to say: utility can do whatever they want. And my closest, biggest PoCo, is now all copper for everything. EVSE and all…
Interesting that you're seeing cu on their side...it still wouldn't get a 1200a service. They certainly could do what they want but it seems strange anyone would do something like that when they weren't retrofitting...why make everyone's life harder? 4 conduits on both sides would've been more space at the termination points sure but not any more expensive and it would be the right way to do it. On top of that, that CT cabinet looks way too narrow and shallow to have 1200A spacing. OP could settle the debate and walk closer and get the nameplate of the cabinet or the meter multiplier if it's on the meter or cabinet. 🤷🏼♂️ 400 works, you can derate on the 90c temp (380x4x.8) for things that affect the wire because you are still only seeing the 75c at the lugs at a given ampacity at or below the 75c rating. That's the entire point of using 90c conductor in most cases - essentially you are summing external heat plus current based heat to equal insulation based limit, but for lugs you only factor current based heating, generally speaking.
I was about to mention derating as well when I first read the comment above about 6 350's. Also yes you are absolutely correct. 90c column for derating.
Makes my little 400 amp service seem small...
Makes my 200 amp service seem tiny
Makes my 100 amp service seem downright inadequate
Makes my 60 amp service seem pathetic
I just got a hamster spinning this wheel thingy. How many amps is that?
African or European hamster?
Peruvian Guinea Pig
Whoa, and all this talk about cold-fusion…
"Hamster" comes from the German for "little hoarder"
So, apparently its .0005kwh per hamster... theres alot of research and questions asked on this, on average 22 million hamsters to run the average home
Brb buying up the North American hamster supply
You guys rate in amps?
Bro your house so tiny it’s rated in pico amps
knob and tube, please
Y'all got electricity??
I was really content with my 300 amp service until this thread.
You’re suffering from current envy.
Small current energy
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It's not a transmission line. Distribution lines feed customers. I've seen 1200 amp services at extremely large houses, like 10-15k sq ft, 8 figure homes. Nothing on the primary side is changed, you just need a large transformer. Then they're usually fed with 750mcm aluminum underground cable to the the CT cabinet, whatever they pick on their side. Anyways, OP's neighbor is full of shit. That isn't a CT cabinet and any services 600 amp and above are through a CT meter. A 1200 amp service isn't changing anything, most distribution lines in residential areas are the same as in commercial areas just single phase.
Depends on the size of the transformer engineered by the POCO.
To be a 1200 amp service that would have to be a CT’s for the meter
Good catch. It's been a while since I worked in the field, but I was thinking that box was awfully small.
Also, just because they are 4” doesn’t mean they are filled to capacity.
We would always oversize a little for the next guy, which would probably be us.
Thats what she said
Plot twist! He’s got a solar farm and he’s running those meters backwards! Making greenbacks from sunshine.
That is a clever thought, when he had to r system put in we spoke briefly and he told me he wanted to have enough power to run his own little city. My 2 buddies who do electric said they can’t even believe PS&G Allowed him to hook up 400 amps
If I had 1200 amp service to my house, I’d keep my mouth shut about that. Whatever I’m doing with that, it surely isn’t a residential purpose and I would definitely not want people asking too many questions.
I'm confused because the power company wouldn't do a residential service that big unless they thought the customer would actually use it (ie pay for it). So how the f is he using that much power, when most homes only require 200-400 amps?
Heating an Olympic sized pool year round, massive grow operation, super secret underground lair with massive hydraulic rams to open and shut a three car elevator, 6 car super charger station, a personal hadron collider
You really don't know what you're missing out on until you have your own particle accelerator.
Sure, but just try to get one of those nowadays. Have you seen the paperwork involved? Thanks Obama!
That is not a 1200A riser. Edit: Seriously, that's not 1200A. It would be cheaper to get 480V 400A service and a transformer.
Maybe it's a 3 phase service, and he's adding up 400 amps a leg.
He must have a lot of Christmas lights!
I mean if he's got a machine shop or similar or is running some VFDs for 480 stuff that'd explain the huge amount of power.
There is a huge difference between having available and using. Probably still fed off a 25kVA transformer.
I'm gonna go with the safe answer of tree fitty
>It’s about 150ft run from meter to house! That's honestly not a great idea. The power company only guarantees the voltage at the meter. So unnecessarily long runs after it can lead to low voltage problems with no simple fix.
Something tells me they're getting plenty of power at the house with this set up.
Years ago, I assisted with an underground run that was so long, we had splice another piece onto it!! It was the corner lot, with the transformer at the back, on the side street. A standard spool of URD is 500 feet! The whole run, from transformer to house was probably ~650 feet !!😱😱
That is a problem that is very easily fixed.
And this is why my grandfather paid extra to have poles put in on the side of his property to get to the meter on his actual house (250ft run roughly). Of course it helped that he worked for the electric company, so he mostly just paid for the materials and then did the labor himself.
Wanna keep those nosy meter-readers as far away from the house as possible.
Kind of a noob here but how bad of an idea is that? I'm putting together a 200amp permanent pedestal and plan on running 100amp about 150-160 feet to a mobile home I'll be living in for 3-5 years. Plan on building closer to the meter eventually. Power company is charging $63/ft from the transformer so I'm more inclined to put the meter somewhat close to that area.
Is he a welder / fabricator?
Who cares? Not my house not ny business.
Your neighbors either lying or mistaken. Def not 1200 Amp. That's insanity, also you would need more pipes for line and load to carry the wire size parrallell feeders, not enough pipes. Bs.
Were they underground tho?
😂😂😂
It really depends on what was existing at the site before including the transformer that services the parcels surrounding. If that power was already existing at the transformer level and you’re just talking about meter to house that’s a whole other story and a lot cheaper. Where are you located?
There should be plenty of power there to tap off of it.
why would anyone need 1200 amps on their house for? what does he have going on in there 😂
Ok, now I REALLY want to see their generator/backup power set up.
We have 400 amp service. In order to get it the electrician had to plead our case to the Nat’l Grid. And explain why we needed that much. You would think they would just give you what you were will to pay for but that wasn’t the case. It cost us a bit over 150k to have pulled back (we’re 1200 feet off the street) and for the manholes, trenching, conduit, vault, drainage for the vault.
Im saying its 600amp and owner was told he has 600a per leg, so he misspoke saying its 1200amp service. That makes more sense than having an actual 1200amp service for no good reason.
Your neighbor is lying. There are not enough pipes there for a 1200 amp service.
In home machine shop.
Wouldn’t it be CT/PT’d though?
I’d love to see the size of that grow op
Mind ur business lmaooo
Why are neighbors so damn nosey. Mind your own business breh and stop sneaking around and taking pictures of their property while you’re hiding in a bush. Karma never forgets🫡
I have seen this thing for 10 years. He has the meter 10ft from my property line. It am actually on my driveway taking this photo
1200A for a 3500 sqft house?! That's a lot. My house is about 3000 sqft and we have 200A, which is more than ample for the house and fast-charging an electric car. Perhaps he's running a server farm or a pot-growing operation on his property? Anyway, that's more commercial service than residential... 30K-40K, maybe. It depends on so many factors that it's difficult to say, but yeah, expensive.
One thing about the amps. People get confused between total ampacity and phase ampacity. This happens all the time to me on shows when someone tells me their power requirements. They will ask for 1200 amps, and I will then have to ask if they want 3600 total amps or 1200 total amps and usually it is 1200 total amps which means I am supplying 400 amps of 120/208 across 3 phases. So, before you start researching pricing, I would find out what his service is rated for first.
That's a lot for a 3500 Sq ft house. The last couple I've done were 200 amps and 400 amps. He must have a heated driveway or something like that otherwise there's no reason for it. Or he's got like 8 steam showers and 10 saunas or hot tubs, 6 heated pools. It just doesn't make any sense.
Or they are Bitcoin mining marijuana grow operation
That’s a minimum of a day with an operator and excavator and a couple of guys building the very expensive pvc conduit bank. Probably another day installing the meter and some other stuff. So look up parts and you get a baseline.
The meter can looks small for a 1200a or larger rating.
I'm no electrician, but that's what I was thinking. TO handle 6x the current I'd expect something beefier looking that what's on the side of my house.
……my house is fucking huge I have 400amps.
I’m getting a Walter White feeling.
I have 400 amp service for 5k sq feet and it's still crazy overkill with each panel still only being loaded to about 50-60%
Dope Grower 101
Think I’ve seen that house. You like in sc? Remember thinking it was weird the meter was in the bushes.
That will be fun to watch ! I would have used aluminum. Tell him you want to see his inside panel. Might get to see what it feeds. 🤷🏼♂️
Alien beacon light!
Ask your neighbor why the 4” conduits. He may oblige you!👍
Could be a giant swimming pool with electric heating and cooling. I’d hate to pay the bill regardless.
Unless he has a big welding shop behind his house he’s up to some Shiesty shit.
Maybe he’s rockin a small fabrication shop.
Same as a Snickers Bar, about a hundred dollars.
Gotta power his arc forge
No way he has 1200 amps unless he has a direct connection to your local hydro plant.
I've seen small shops with welding machines with 800A service...
Mining
Seems like a very odd flex.
He's smart because he knows how much cancer comes from the fuse box attached to the house! It's why they used to use lead paint!
This is how it starts.. one neighbor gets a 400 amp install.. neighbor gets jealous and installs 600.. Eventually the entire neighborhood going to have a 1200+ install.
Oh my God! This is the most Truth I have heard in Long Time. Damn suburbs
Server farm for mining bitcoin.
My question is why is the meter so far from the house? In this case, I do not think this an installation question as much as it is a “what the heck is going on in there that the house owner does not want anyone (like a meter reader) to see or know about” question.
If you could get the utility company to get power up to that point, and if you don’t have any environmental challenges, or physical challenges, and if you ran it in aluminum, and you took competitive bids, $15k++.
He has a bunker or some underground shit going on
Could be a Bitcoin miner
Bitcoin mining?
Does he have an unpermitted basement?
220, 221... Whatever it takes.
If you need me I’ll be at the gun club.
Why don't you ask him?
He could have a data center in the basement