My electric utility requires a sub-meter in the 240 volt circuit feeding an EV charger plugged into a 14-50 receptacle. The meter socket is downstream of the main panel, so the neutral wire must not be bonded to the ground. The utility company says to simply run the neutral wire straight through the meter socket after removing the neutral lug first. Okay, fine. But, should the neutral wire be routed straight though the socket, behind the standard/bracket to which the main power lugs are found, Or, should the neutral be routed to one side of the main power lugs, making them visible for inspection? Seems like the former would offer less chance for any possible future cracking of the insulation due to no bends, but the latter offers immediate inspection opportunity that routing the wire behind the bracket does not. Which is the recommended location for routing the neutral wire?
Where to run neutral wire passing through sub-meter socket in EV circuit?
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I am closing this thread in accordance with forum rules. If you are not an electrician, we are not permitted to assist you in performing your own electrical installation or maintenance work.
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If installing stuff is not your occupation, then we can’t help you install stuff. You would have had to agree with that rule during the process of registering on the forum.
The reason is that the forum’s owner does not want a person to get an answer to the question they asked, but not get answers to the dozens of other questions they should have asked and were unaware they needed to ask. Mike doesn’t want anyone to get injured by any incidents related to electrical installations. But he also doesn’t want to be sued by the injured party’s relatives.
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