aelectricalman
Senior Member
- Location
- KY
I found the problem today. The inspector didnt like my grounding and bonding. He stated that my troughs needed to be grounded since the SER passed through. (No splices) Ok, fine, I did that. Now here is what he made me do.
1. Ground the meter base to the ground rods.
2. Ground the disconnects to the Water ground.
3. Send an equipment ground to each loadcenter.
4. He had me ground the troughs to the same double lug that the water ground was attached. If you can follow what im getting at, I think there is something wrong. There is a though before and after the disconnect on the service. Seems that 1 would have to be grounded to the meter base so there would be no parallelling in the grounding. Also, I don't understand why the throughs don't come with a bonding screw, lug or hole if is required to be there. Are there exceptions?
1. Ground the meter base to the ground rods.
2. Ground the disconnects to the Water ground.
3. Send an equipment ground to each loadcenter.
4. He had me ground the troughs to the same double lug that the water ground was attached. If you can follow what im getting at, I think there is something wrong. There is a though before and after the disconnect on the service. Seems that 1 would have to be grounded to the meter base so there would be no parallelling in the grounding. Also, I don't understand why the throughs don't come with a bonding screw, lug or hole if is required to be there. Are there exceptions?