Gec and ground rod wire in meterbase
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WarrMann
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Maybe I'm missing something here. GEC and ground rod wire are the same thing. Also, is this a POCO meter base, or a home depot meter base?
Neither typically have a ground lug, only a lug for the grounded conductor.
Your going to want to bond your grounds together in the first disconnect, and use a supply side bonding jumper to ground the meter base
But to answer your question, yes. You can join them together with a polaris lug so you only have one conductor going into the terminal. But you could also use a short piece of ground bar or a split bolt to accomplish the same thing, and save some money. A connector for grounding conductors doesn't need to be insulated.
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Leespark57
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In my opinion, yes you can run the GEC to the meter base. You then can skin a section of the GEC inside the meter base and connect the #6 supplemental with a listed grounding connector (split bolt), again my opinion, I suspect others will disagree.
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Tom would say look at 250.64(C)
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LarryFine
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Because the meter is sealed, we are not allowed to land any GEC conductors in it. That's a shame, because it's the perfect place to land the ground rod GEC.
kwired
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The "GEC" needs to be unspliced to one of your electrodes. Any other electrodes present can be connected with "bonding jumpers".
We are now allowed to land ground rod GEC to meter base. Just happened last couple years Duke Energy
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Around here it's also explicitly prohibited by the POCO. I agree with you it's a good idea to land it there.
jaggedben
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NEC allows it. But not using a polaris to splice the GEC because the GEC has to be continuous. You could perhaps splice the neutral and bond the GEC to it using a polaris, as long as the GEC itself is not spliced there. Seems like there must be a better way than a polaris.
Usually around here the GEC is only landed at the meters if there are multiple meters, and then there's an extra lug for it.
Usually around here the GEC is only landed at the meters if there are multiple meters, and then there's an extra lug for it.
AFAIK all meter cans have a lug for the GEC and the meter is definately the best place for the connection.
Roger
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