Large house with attached garage. Overhead wires come to meter located at rear of garage….then running along-side 2 sides of house at great distance electrical & cable runs through an underground conduit to ultimately arrive at its final underground point to enter full basement & large main electrical panel.
We want to add a couple electrical appliances to studio located above garage…a great distance from main panel. Therefore, we want to know/confirm whether we need a particular electrical part to safely create a new service directly off meter box, coming into rear of garage, to then create a small sub-panel to service some new/additional electrical needs directly above garage in finished studio. We thought this would be easier than running new home runs all the way back to main panel in basement on opposite end of residential structure.
Please advise how we might do that & any other helpful info & guidance. Thank You!
Best Answer
By modern code in the US you will need a disconnect outside, then both panels could be fed from that. Putting the disconnect close to the meter would be the easiest way and a disconnect that has or can accommodate double lugs to feed the other panel.