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Give this a quick peruse, secondary circulating ground currents do happen.... And can cause some very funky things to happen
http://www.naplia.com/homeinspectors...ndingFinal.pdf Dirk |
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Found these tidbits: The neutral wire does not carry voltage, but it does carry current (amperage). If the neutral and ground are bonded together, then the ground could be carrying some of the current. But, the ground is there only as a safety/backup and is not supposed to carry current, except in rare cases where there is a fault. Therefore, neutral and ground are isolated everywhere, except in the service equipment. The neutral *IS NOT ALLOWED* to be bonded to ground at any location downstream from the "service equipment". A simple explanation is: If the neutral becomes (or is intentionally) bonded to ground downstream of the service equipment, the neutral current now has multiple paths back to the service equipment. Typically, the neutral and ground bars on mounted on plastic insulator standoffs. The exception being those ground bars which are mounted directly to the back of the enclosure with screws. Neutral bars are never mounted that way ... unless the enclosure is "Suitable for Service Equipment ONLY". In which case it is not allowed to be used for anything other than service equipment.
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My breaker box is conveniently located behind the hot water tank.
Which is better than our old house. When I took down the overhead light fixture in the kitchen in 1997, the wire connections were wrapped in a 1958 edition of the newspaper. |
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youre gonna hafta move the HWT out 3'...more, if ya need to get a fat electrician in there...
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