LOCATION AND INSTALLATION

All meters will normally be located outdoors. The Customer shall provide and maintain space to accommodate the meters. This space shall be readily accessible to Company representatives for meter reading, testing, or maintenance.

Meter-mounting equipment for various kinds of service installations shall be installed so that the top of the socket or enclosure will be the following distances above the final ground level or floor:

Residential, Outdoor 3-1/2 to 6 feet

Residential, Indoor 5 to 6 feet
(Special Permission Only)

Mobile home pedestal 3-1/2 to 5 feet

Free Standing Meter Installations 5 Feet
(See Figure 21) Contact the Division Office for Instructions

Meter enclosures with doors opening up, to an overhead position 6 feet

All Transockets 5 to 6 feet

All other non-residential installations 5 to 6 feet

Apartment group installations with combination meter and breaker assemblies mounted indoors
See Figure 21.

Locations which interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic shall be avoided. A level three-foot clear space in front of the meter, suitable for a repairman to work from, shall be provided and maintained at all times.

The Customer shall install the meter socket or transformer cabinet so that it is plumb, tight and level. All mounting holes provided in the meter socket shall be used, and no additional mounting holes shall be drilled.<

Sockets mounted hardware shall be installed into brick, concrete block, studs or the equivalent. On metal, vinyl or wood lap siding, a backing of 3/4 inch thick outdoor plywood shall be attached to two studs and shall be of sufficient strength to securely mount the socket.

Meters may be mounted on a Customer's pole or support structure. Approval for such an installation shall be obtained from the Division Office. A pole-mounted meter is shown in Figure 8. An example of a support structure is shown in Figure 23.

Where aluminum conductors are used, an oxidation inhibitor shall be applied in a proper manner to all conductors before they are placed into the meter socket terminals.

Except for multimeter installations having more than six meters, the meter socket or the instrument-transformer cabinet shall be located on the supply side of the Customer's service equipment.

Meter sockets for use on single-phase, 120/208 volt services shall have a fifth terminal mounted in the 9 o'clock position. The Customer shall provide, install and connect the fifth terminal shown in Figure 16.

Metered and unmetered conductors shall not be installed in the same meter socket, conduit, wireway, or wiring trough. Meter sockets shall not be used as junction boxes. All cabinets, pull boxes, and wireways or wiring troughs which contain unmetered conductors shall have provisions for sealing.

In all three-phase installations the service-entrance conductors shall be identified at the service head or fitting in accordance with the connections at the meter socket or Transocket. This is necessary to ensure proper metering.

For the proper method of connecting line and load conductors, See Figure 16 for meter sockets and Figure 17 and 18 for Transocket assemblies.