Neutral and Bond or just Neutral

[charter188m]

So I just recently did 2 underground services where the meter was more than 6' away from the panel, so obviously I installed the weather proof disconnect. Now figure this, one passed the other did not. Absolutely no different, one failed cause I ran SEU between disconnect and panel, the other one passed. Both these serv ices are located within about 5 miles of each other. The ispector told me I needed the ground on the one that failed, I can understand this however what if the disconnect is now bonded? Does it even need to be bonded? Cant make heads or tails from the d*** NEC, I need to spend hours there to find 1 d*** thing, any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Charter188M

(Moderator's Note: Edited to remove potentially offensive language, and moved to the Grounding and Bonding area.)

[ May 27, 2004, 09:50 AM: Message edited by: charlie b ]

 

[hbiss]

Re: Neutral and Bond or just Neutral

The panel in the house is a sub panel. You need the 2 hots, a neutral and a ground feeding it from the disconnect where the neutral and ground are bonded. There should be separate neutral and ground busses in the sub panel.

-Hal

 

[grandpapastu]

Re: Neutral and Bond or just Neutral

Always use an outside disconnect with your service design for a better design in my opinion.

Always use the SER service entrance cable from the service disconnect to your main lug panel. You can still yet use a main breaker panel if you want to.
Terminate all grounding electrode conductors used at the outside service disconnect (service point -see NEC definitions).
On the load side of the service disconnect isolate all equipment grounding conductors and all grounded circuit conductors from each other, and this means that if you ,for any reason, choose to use a MBO loadcenter in a system that is designed with an outside main service disconnect then you will have to reconstruct the equipment grounding bar and the neutral bar configuration in the MBO loadcenter to comply with NEC Art. 250.24 (A)(5).