Raimondi
New member
- Location
- DeKalb, IL
:? Now, I have been working on electrical wiring for many years, but over the weekend, I had to separate the GFCI from the refrigerator since the new unit was tripping the GFCI. All went well until I touched the refrigerator, a mild shock occurred. Being late, I decided to let it go and check to see what was happening. Next day I took a into the service panel to check the Panel Neutral. What I noticed was the neutral wire that runs from the water main pipe to the panel was missing. Top it off, they grounded (with a green wire) from the neutral to the service entrance connector (which is plastic pipe). I informed my brother to call an electrician to verify that my 24-hour lack of sleep is not seeing these mistakes and to see the cost of this fix since I ran out of time and had to head home. I could use an opinion on this topic. I can provide pictures if you so desire. This is Cook County, so we do not use romax and all work is piped (with some flex cable allowed). So, what I figured needs to be done, is run 100 feet plus of #3 to the water meter and tie the two together. Second, is to drive a cooper pipe into the ground outside and then tie that to the service entrance connector for service panel bonding. I done neutrals way back, I prefer to leave that for those who like to crawl into crawl spaces.
Other hidden goodies I found:
they moved the JB for a light and noticed the pipe would not fit, so they took the wires and stretched it over into the box, to make the light work.
The placed emt over the entrance of the attic opening
One GFCI has a dim light (not sure why)
Broke emt connector
emt on top of of a gas pipe
box over fill.
Any advice?
Other hidden goodies I found:
they moved the JB for a light and noticed the pipe would not fit, so they took the wires and stretched it over into the box, to make the light work.
The placed emt over the entrance of the attic opening
One GFCI has a dim light (not sure why)
Broke emt connector
emt on top of of a gas pipe
box over fill.
Any advice?