wheres the electricians at? voltage drop

[2172Bay]

Looking for an aluminum overhead drop wire to fit the below. What gauge wire is needed.
200 amp breaker box at entrance, then 800' run to camp. Camp is a double wide trailer with central A/C

[bassin365]

At that distance you would have to go with at least 700 KCMIL in aluminum to sustain 150 amps at 240V to have less than 3% drop.

[CatFan]

This is the reason they run power at high voltage and step it down very close to the point of use. Compare your cost to having a HV service line run with the cost of such cable and the poles and hardware that would be required to support it. Not going to be cheap.

[Steve@BMS]

http://www.paigewire.com/pumpWireCalc.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
800 MCM for the full 200amp according to this w/240v

[KWH]

You need to base the voltage drop on how many amps you will actually be pulling with a small buffer added, there are free sites online with voltage drop calculators.

[Clif Kincaid]

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[Roddy]

My advice, Get a pole and meter set.

[jiggerjake]

Aside from the cost and how hard 800mcm would be to work with you won't find a meter can or 200a panel with breaker lugs big enough to fit that let alone getting into the panel.

[JerryT]

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Nailed it ...... lol

[GaryL]

Trench along the driveway bury a 4" and two 3" conduits. Pull in the primary in the 4" to a transformer pad. Put transformer within 100' of camp. Then run from there to the camp with the secondary. Should be able to do all that for around 10-12 grand. No biggie right. We here at BBC all pay cash for everything. The 3" would be for cable and telephone.

[Champ891]

My advice, Get a pole and meter set.

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[Transom]

That is along run at load voltage.