Phillip Land
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- Location
- Rome, Ga, US
I have a condo building I'm working on with 16 tenants. The meter/disconnect pack is in a basement closet. The service is 800 amps. The electrode grounding conductor comes out of the disconnect and goes underground to who knows what or where - it looks to be sized appropriately and is copper. There is not a gec to cold water - I could not find it and it may be pvc. The building was built in 1984 and is in Atlanta, Ga
The feeders to each unit are 1/0 SER aluminum. The panels are mlo and have the neutral bar and eq gr. bars separate. For some reason someone ran a #4 gec from the eq grounding bar to the cold water at the water heater, which is a few feet away.
This is not the first time or building that I have seen this set-up. I removed the #4 going to the water heater and I'm wondering if I need to put it back. I usually work on sing family dwellings.
I'm just hoping somebody could help me out here if they know a reason for this installation
Thank you!
The feeders to each unit are 1/0 SER aluminum. The panels are mlo and have the neutral bar and eq gr. bars separate. For some reason someone ran a #4 gec from the eq grounding bar to the cold water at the water heater, which is a few feet away.
This is not the first time or building that I have seen this set-up. I removed the #4 going to the water heater and I'm wondering if I need to put it back. I usually work on sing family dwellings.
I'm just hoping somebody could help me out here if they know a reason for this installation
Thank you!
