Service grounding

[Darho]

So concerning the post in facebook about service grounding. If you ground the meter can and rely on the neutral to be the bond jumper between the meter and the disconnect as the diagram illustrates. What happens if by chance you lose your neutral between the meter can and the disconnect? Where does the voltage return to. There is no ground conductor anymore so wouldn’t all grounded metal appliances then become charged by the current seeking to go to ground?

 

[infinity]

Can you post graphic?

 

[Darho]

Can you post graphic?

Can’t figure out how to post it. Sorry

 

[Darho]

Can’t figure out how to post it. Sorry

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[infinity]

This graphic?

 

[don_resqcapt19]

So concerning the post in facebook about service grounding. If you ground the meter can and rely on the neutral to be the bond jumper between the meter and the disconnect as the diagram illustrates. What happens if by chance you lose your neutral between the meter can and the disconnect? Where does the voltage return to. There is no ground conductor anymore so wouldn’t all grounded metal appliances then become charged by the current seeking to go to ground?

Yes, everything connected to the grounding system will be energized, but the same thing happens if you lose your service neutral and that is much more likely than losing the neutral between the mete and the disconnect.

Also the current is not trying to go to ground, it is trying to go back to the source. On a grounded system the earth is a path back to the source, and some current will flow on that path.

 

[electrofelon]

So concerning the post in facebook about service grounding. If you ground the meter can and rely on the neutral to be the bond jumper between the meter and the disconnect as the diagram illustrates. What happens if by chance you lose your neutral between the meter can and the disconnect? Where does the voltage return to. There is no ground conductor anymore so wouldn’t all grounded metal appliances then become charged by the current seeking to go to ground?

Even if there were a GEC connected in the main panel, if the neutral was broken, ahead of the main panel, everything would still become energized. A Grounding electrode will not do anything for a broken neutral.