New house electrical question

After 2 years....i HOPE he already has it installed !! 

4/0 AL cable is good for 205 amps ......... the ground wire 2/0 is good for about 150 amps.... that should be fine for entrance cable. I have had similar in my house for 40 years.

All the local electrical contractors use is Aluminum Tri Plex for high amp runs. My own home as are 90% are is fed from the meter base to the breaker panel with same. Not so much a concern for heat and fire probabilities as the old 12/2 w/grd house wire.

That looks like aluminum can’t
’ Use it in Calif   I wouldn’t anyhow too high fire risk. It expands and contracts too much.

Do not need to bury, this will be interior run.

Will this work for 200 amp service from meter to breaker box?

Mother in Law's neighbor was caught power tapping from a rental home next to their live in home. He had added four extension cords underground to snitch power to run the washer and drier and a few rooms lights on the rental meter. Got caught when two of the four burnt up in winter and left a heat trail in the ground between the two, damned lucky did not set BOTH houses on fire. He weren't none two brite!!

I have a sequence box (meter mounting enclosure and lugs for meter) in the shop with a meter I bought off E-bay , so I know how much electric is used for shop and also have on in basement for kilns the wife had for her ceramics studio. 
 I know a disconnect was needed IF a meter was mounted on a central pole for farm use in many places and also some type of limiting  fusing for branch circuits . 
 Now NEA codes are always being updated so keeping up with them is a constant study of codes .

Edited by Coke-in-MN - 03 Feb 2019 at 3:03pm

after being a fire dispatcher for many years, I learned to have a power shut off/breaker box added to the pole outside where the meter is. here when there is a fire to a house or out building the fire department won't squirt water until the power is cut to that building. that requires the electric company rep to come pull the meter. if it's in the middle of the night...that's a lot of time to wait for their rep and usually caused a total loss to the home/building owner. sometimes the fire dept did pull the meter before the power co rep got there, but after some many law suits they quit that! (it's different now) so I had a shut off installed at my house, then meter doesn't hafta be pulled. only regret was I didn't have any plug ins added to the shut off box.

Thanks Kenny, that makes sense now

Ted J wrote: JimD wrote: Im sure those will work. Just seems odd that a fully loaded 200 ampwith breakers is less than a outdoor breaker.  Guess it just stingmore since I'm doing 2 meters, Jim, WHY are you doing two meters? Here we pay $35 or $45 dollars per each meter we have.  I used to have two, one to the house and one to the barn.  Now I only have one and feed both the house and barn. Our electrical supplier got this idea from some other outfit so they could regulate and raise more money.  A LOT of the farmers around here still have at least two meters because they don't want to spend the $$$$ to change it to one. COULD happen to you some day.....you never know, they are always looking for a new way to raise money. Being as it's new, why not put a pedestal out somewhere and have the meter on that and feed from there?  We have them around here and it has the disconnect built into that.  I don't remember what I paid for mine, but it was less than $300.  Paid for itself the first year.

Ted they do that because you can't take the electricity that the house uses off your taxes anyway that's why dad done it that way 

Here is the spec sheet:

Edited by JimD - 02 Feb 2019 at 6:45pm

My electric company furnished and installed a meter with a place to put in 3 breakers if you wanted you could run 3 200 amp breakers

You also have to remember this is OUTSIDE box, so it is a little better construction and somewhat more SEALED than the inside breaker distribution boxes.