This house has 1 100 Amp Fuse Panel. Tapped off the main incoming lines (at the main lugs of the fuse panel) are #8's going thru an offset fitting into a small 40 Amp Main Breaker Panel. Because of the tapped service entrance cables, this small breaker box is considered a Service Panel (not a subpanel) and therefore needs to have the grounded neutral brought into it and bonded to the box and a Grounding Electrode Conductor brought into it and bonded as well. The offset fitting used is Rigid Steel Conduit and it terminates thru an Eccentric Opening in the small breaker box with locknuts. I believe this is inadequate and should be a Grounding type Locknut as per the NEC since it is service equipment. I don't like this installation one bit. They apparantly did this cause they were out of circuits in the Fuse Panel. I would have ripped out the fuse panel and put in a new Breaker Panel with spare breakers. Any thoughts out there on this?
The problem is somebody got themselves shocked when running a metal tape measure from the Fuse Box to the small breaker box, so I suspect the small breaker box was carry return current back to the neutral bus in the fuse panel. Just looking for some dialogue on this one.
Thanks
ps. it has since been replaced with one new breaker panel.
The problem is somebody got themselves shocked when running a metal tape measure from the Fuse Box to the small breaker box, so I suspect the small breaker box was carry return current back to the neutral bus in the fuse panel. Just looking for some dialogue on this one.
Thanks
ps. it has since been replaced with one new breaker panel.