Feb 2009 EC&M

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A/A Fuel GTX

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On page 24, Electrical Services Part 1, Figure 1 shows a service with two disconnects. The GEC is landed in the meter socket which is illegal in my area. My question is would it be correct to land the GEC at the first disconnect only or would it have to be run to both disconnects? I wish I had a way to post the graphic from the magazine.
 
The Feb edition is not at EC&M's website as of now [and that could change at any given moment].

A little off topic:
What's with the unholy alliance of EC&M and Home Depot????
 
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....and another question:
It "appears" all three locations are bonded [screws look green to me].
Is that legal?
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Check out the Kenny Clamp!
 
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Those raceways look like PVC. Without those screws each metal enclosure would not be bonded at all.
 
A/A Fuel GTX said:
On page 24, Electrical Services Part 1, Figure 1 shows a service with two disconnects. The GEC is landed in the meter socket which is illegal in my area. My question is would it be correct to land the GEC at the first disconnect only or would it have to be run to both disconnects? I wish I had a way to post the graphic from the magazine.
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Your answer would be located in 250.64(D)1,2,3. IMO if your going to choose the disconnects as the point of connection, each of the disconnects would require a seperate GEC (250.64(D)2). In the graphic, they chose to make the connection ahead of the disconnects making it a common GEC.(250.64(D)3).

Rick
 
celtic said:
....and another question:
It "appears" all three locations are bonded [screws look green to me].
Is that legal?
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I agree with Rick ,..another article that supports the grounded conductor being used to ground equipment is 250.142
 
Pvc?

Pvc?

Too funny when I saw this last week when looking thru my copy i thought the same thing the meter is grounded and then all the disconnects also is this correct should there be a ground rod at each disc? is this legal? then I saw this post, confused even more. anywho I doubt thoes would be PVC conduits it looks like set screw type fittings would not PVC be glued/
 
Mike01 said:
Too funny when I saw this last week when looking thru my copy i thought the same thing the meter is grounded and then all the disconnects also is this correct should there be a ground rod at each disc? is this legal? then I saw this post, confused even more. anywho I doubt thoes would be PVC conduits it looks like set screw type fittings would not PVC be glued/
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The set screw connectors are on the load side of the disconnects. The PVC is on the line side. The enclosures are required to be bonded so they're bonded to the neutral.
 
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