Half the amps are going back on the service conduit

[wyreman]

Looks to me like the utilities got a high impedance grounded conductor
Because half my current is going back on the rigid service lateral
The pipe is a better conductor than the neutral
The neutral seems to be working fine,
Everything is working fine just that the pipe is Carrying half the current

I guess I got to call a t-man
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yPAWUp6BgiT6gNX56



The grounded conductor and the service raceways and enclosures basically become one (electrically) at that point by virtue of the main bonding jumper connection
https://iaeimagazine.org/magazine/2006/05/16/current-in-the-grounded-conductor/

 

[romex jockey]

Section 250.6(B) provides a few alternative remedies for stopping objectionable current, but clearly requires the effective ground-fault current path required by 250.4(A)(5) and the ground-fault current path required by 250.4(B)(4) to remain intact and effective. It is important that the remedies or solutions attempted to reduce objectionable current meet the basic requirements of 250.6(B), which includes maintaining the equipment grounding conductor path.

The translation of this ,in reality, is to address a multiple return path configuration by denying it's existence.

:roll:
~RJ~

 

[wyreman]

something that”s working fine

something that”s working fine

Even if it’s that one circuit, by the time it got back to the mains,
the neutral should’ve sucked it all up.
The problem will be,
that if you touch the util terminations.
You have to become 2019 compliant.


That means a new trench and
Working clearances at the entry wall
Bust up the sidewalk
And the front of the historical house
To fix “something that”s working fine”