If the 1 00-A panel board of Figure 14-28 is within
25 ft (7 .62 m) of the transformer, the disconnect switch
can be eliminated, and a set of 1 00-A main fuses or a
1 00-A main circuit breaker can be installed in the panelboard,
as shown in Figure 14-29. The minimum size
secondary wire would be No. 3 AWG copper THWN.
A 2-wire secondary from a single-phase transformer
is permitted to be protected by the transformer primary
overcurrent device, NEC Section 240-3, Exception No.
5. However, there is a caution. The primary overcurrent
device must be sized so that the secondary wire cannot
become overloaded. Equation 14.9 can be used to determine
the maximum size primary overcurrent device rating.