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I contacted the electrical inspection dept. about this service.
I was informed I will need to terminate the service wires into a trough before continuing to the separate 200 amp panels.
I then asked about bonding the neutral in the CT cabinet and was told not to, just start the bond in the trough after the cabinet and before the panels.
While doing research on this I ran across this thread ( http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=100435 ) and post #9 contradicts what I was told.
Is my inspector having me do this wrong or does it matter?
 
aftershock said:
I contacted the electrical inspection dept. about this service.
I was informed I will need to terminate the service wires into a trough before continuing to the separate 200 amp panels.
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I have no idea of why you would need to do this. Did the AHJ give a reason?
I then asked about bonding the neutral in the CT cabinet and was told not to, just start the bond in the trough after the cabinet and before the panels.
While doing research on this I ran across this thread ( http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=100435 ) and post #9 contradicts what I was told.
Is my inspector having me do this wrong or does it matter?
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I'm wondering if we have communication problems. The CT cabinet needs to be bonded to the neutral, but the GEC does not need to be run to the CT cabinet. I wonder if the AHJ was thinking about the GEC and they want the GEC in the 1st means of disconnect?

In Wilmington, NC, we can either run the neutral conductor through a lug attached to the CT enclosure or we can bring a ground wire back from the 1st means of disconnect to bond the CT cabinet.
 
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In our area Poco requires bonding neutral to cabinet, we supply the meter with usually a 2" pvc 90 between cabinet and meter, they require a ground #10 or larger from cabinet to meter in this situation. The cabinets we use are basically a large J-Box , one Poco requires plywood backboard to mount CT's to other Poco requires uni-strut claiming wood has rotted out over time causing a bad situation. They both have specs in there handbook on spacing of CT's in cabinet. The CT's we are supplied do not come with any lugs so if pricing this job might want to figure in.
 
C.T. Cabinet

C.T. Cabinet

In our area Poco requires bonding neutral to cabinet, we supply the meter with usually a 2" pvc 90 between cabinet and meter, they require a ground #10 or larger from cabinet to meter in this situation. The cabinets we use are basically a large J-Box , one Poco requires plywood backboard to mount CT's to other Poco requires uni-strut claiming wood has rotted out over time causing a bad situation. They both have specs in there handbook on spacing of CT's in cabinet. The CT's we are supplied do not come with any lugs so if pricing this job might want to figure in, also when mounting lug to bottom of cabinet for grounded conductor we are required to remove paint at contact point.
 
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