shyamster
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I have a home with a meter and service entrance panel outdoors. The service panel is rated 200 AMPS and has couple of breakers for outdoor lights that I am not planning to tie into my solar. The "Main Panel" is in the garage with a 200 AMP breaker that supplies the house - well pump, EV charger, two electric dryers and a Mitsubishi heat pump. The service panel and the main panel are about 40 ft away from each other and the line is buried underground between the two.
If I install a EG4 18K in the garage with batteries, I believe I have to do a supply side tap since my main panel in the garage is rated only for 200 AMPS and I might have trouble derating it to 175 with all the loads. Can I simply tap the inverter to the line that's coming from the service panel outside into my panel in garage just before the 200AMP breaker? Is that still considered supply side tap? Or something else? Or even allowed?
If I install a EG4 18K in the garage with batteries, I believe I have to do a supply side tap since my main panel in the garage is rated only for 200 AMPS and I might have trouble derating it to 175 with all the loads. Can I simply tap the inverter to the line that's coming from the service panel outside into my panel in garage just before the 200AMP breaker? Is that still considered supply side tap? Or something else? Or even allowed?