<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 5:17 PM Mark McDonald <<a href="mailto:markm@siteserver.com">markm@siteserver.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br><br style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serify;font-size:11px;color:rgb(155,155,155);line-height:14px"><b>Confidentiality Notice:</b> This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.</span></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 15, 2021, at 4:35 PM, Warren Kumari <<a href="mailto:warren@kumari.net" target="_blank">warren@kumari.net</a>> wrote:</div><br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>I recently had to get a 60A panel installed, which meant that I was paying $1.16 per amp for the permit, while my neighbor, with a 400A panel only paid $0.18 per amp for his permit.</div><div>A 400 Amp permit is $0.23 per amp, but if you are a large consumer and get a 2000A permit it works out to only $0.05 per amp.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Perhaps this is unfair, and I should ask the county to charge permit costs by the amp instead -- but their work for issuing a 200A permit or a 400A permit is basically identical.<br></div><div>The over 400A permit seems also roughly the same amount of work, but someone getting that level of service can presumably justify an additional $25 for the permit.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote>I can’t even start to compare a limitless product (copper) to IPv4 addresses. Imagine if that same inspector told you he’s raising the price to inspect #6 wire 650% as that’s what ARIN is doing. ;)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Every year.. this is a recurring fee, not a one time fee. So to properly compare this, you would pay a permit fee to the government every year based on the size of your panel. Now they just raised the fee 650%. so it's $455 a year for the 60A panel.<br></div></div></div>