solarbozo
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- Location
- Santa Fe, NM USA
While up grading a service we installed two ground rods and a cold water ground. There wad a #4 aluminum ground wire going to the main panel. The new GEC's went to the new meter main outside. Should the old (probable) cold water ground which was never found to be connected to a pipe be:
a) Left in the ground bar in the main panel inside :happysad:
b) Irreversibly spliced with a butt splice listed for the appropriate aluminum/copper wire combination and landed at the bond point in the meter/main :happyyes: or
c) be cut and pushed out of the main panel so no one will see or worry about it?:ashamed:
I wanted to do (b) but couldn't get he right butt splice and am worried that a loose grounding electrode conductor touching a box cause arcing during a ground fault. I don't think (a) would be good because everything is supposed to be bonded at the same point. Any definite answers?
Thanks
a) Left in the ground bar in the main panel inside :happysad:
b) Irreversibly spliced with a butt splice listed for the appropriate aluminum/copper wire combination and landed at the bond point in the meter/main :happyyes: or
c) be cut and pushed out of the main panel so no one will see or worry about it?:ashamed:
I wanted to do (b) but couldn't get he right butt splice and am worried that a loose grounding electrode conductor touching a box cause arcing during a ground fault. I don't think (a) would be good because everything is supposed to be bonded at the same point. Any definite answers?
Thanks