JOHNEO99
Senior Member
- Location
- Northern Illinois
I went there and check the balance and it was off a good amount like 47 one hot 18 the other hot then 17 on the neutral.. Turns out both panels were getting hot and one more than the other. There were quite a few issues and actually I'm gonna go back and split up a couple overloaded circuits. At the can the lug shown in the pick was barely bonded to the neutral bus and broke off easily when i went to disconnect the neutral from one panel with a socket. The two wires in this lug were the ground rod wire (this was the only electrode on for the two panels) and the neutral from one panel. This was basically making the ground rod act as a neutral. There were four home runs with 3-hots and only one neutral so I pulled an extra neutral to each and separated the hots correctly. There was a home run with two networks that had a blue as a neutral and a white as the other neutral. There was also a spare blue not terminated at the panel.. Well it was fine at the panel but at the first junction box the splicer used the white as the neutral for all 4 circuits. There was also back feeding neutral from being fed from two directions. I drove two ground rods for each panel and put the bulls-eyes at the panels seeing as they are the main disconnects.
Pretty sure I mopped most of this crap up but I'm gonna go back and double check when I split up a 20 amp circuit that is kicking up to 26 amps when a compressor kicks in. The feeder raceways were cold as could be when I left so that's good. Good times.