Any body bond or ground the gas meter

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I don't. Matter of fact, the gas company in my area claims that will mess up their cathodic protection system. I don't know if that's true or not.
 
buckofdurham said:
Does the 2008 NEC require that we bond or ground the gas meter in a sfd.
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Won't it be bonded through the EGC of the appliances?

Second to last sentence of 250.104(B)
 
I'm wiring a house in Chatam County NC, I,m told the inspections require you to run a seperate ground from the main panel all the way to the meter. This house has a 400 amp service and the gas meter is on the other side of the house.
 
I believe part of the issue in regards to bonding of gas pipes today has developed due to CSST (corrugated stainless steel tubing - the flexible gas piping - Gastite, Wardflex, etc...). The manufacturers have their own installation instructions that go beyond the NEC requirement of 250.104(B).

NYS has put together a committee to deal with the situation, and if I am not mistaken, the state wide code will be amended to deal with the issue, plumbing and electrical.

I can also say that one of the methods of dealing with this in NYS may ultimately lead to the banning of CSST installations in the state.
I will let you guys know when I hear...I have been invited to sit at the meetings.
 
buckofdurham said:
I'm wiring a house in Chatam County NC, I,m told the inspections require you to run a seperate ground from the main panel all the way to the meter. This house has a 400 amp service and the gas meter is on the other side of the house.
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I work in chatham county , NC also-- you are talking about CSST or gastite gas lines. Yes you must bond that back to the panel.

Edit: I guess I should have read Pierre's statement first.

Be careful in Chatham I have had them tell me to bond the CSST pipe with a #4 to the ground rod. This, of course, is not what the manufacturer states. Unfortunately I cannot get an installation instruction that is consistent. I refuse to bond them now. I tell the gas people, you install it , then you bond it. I do not want the liability.
 
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bighills said:
In Manalapan NJ. we run a number 2 copper to gas meter if the water pipe is plastic. Even if we have a CEE we still have to do it.
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Doesn't the dielectric fitting at the gas meter defeat the purpose of that.
 
buckofdurham said:
Whats a cathodic protection system?
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a system to deliberately put DC current on the buried metal. Either done with a power supply or anode bags (full of zinc?) attached to it.
 
Yes Marc, thats true that bonding around the gas meter will affect their cathodic protection system. This system impresses a DC voltage and current on the metal gas line, and uses zinc electrodes, they are sacrificial. If the meter is bonded around then that changes the current and voltage they impress.
Plus, the newer gas piping is HDPE, and there is a di-electric union at the gas meter.
 
there's a lot of wing flapping in my area about bonding CSST. Last word I had was from one of the local gas installers wanting to make sure I had no objection with them bonding to (tapping onto) the GEC for the service with a #4.
 
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