Not sure to go about putting clamps on mains

[ryan57ford]

My panel is weird and has 4 wires that come in from the meter – how would I go about putting the clamps on these ? Is there a better method or place to attach?

 

[Ampster]

I had a similar situation and used the flexible sensors.

Pair of 200A Flexible Sensors for Gen 2 Vue (Power Supply Included)

[Ampster]

I tried to add to my post but could not do it in time so posting here. I have seen some people opening up the utility side of the panel and attaching those clamps to the sincle 0000 cables before the meter. There are risks doing that so your mileage may vary and i am not sure this is recommended by Emporia. In my case my main panel bus bars worked because all my loads are on two sub panels and there was plenty of room since there were only the two breakers feeding the sub panels.

[yyzguy]

Are you sure those are Mains?  What country are you located?   Can you provide a picture showing the entire panel including the meter.

[ryan57ford]

Here is a pic: 

[ryan57ford]

Did you just kind of wrap around the ones in the way? So the two reds are inside and it bends to the outside the black, and Visa versa ? I’m not sure how flexible and how long those are so wasn’t sure if I could get away with that

[ryan57ford]

Something like this ?

 

[Emporia Support]

@ryan57ford unfortunately we do not have sensors that will be able to monitor these 4 100A mains.  Our Flexible Sensors are not long enough to get around both the red/black mains.   The Gen 2 does work without having the mains installed.   Some customers have been able to access the lower left portion of the panel below the meter, however, I can see your utility has locked that out.

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