2 ground bars in one panel?


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Old 04-01-08, 10:20 AM
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2 ground bars in one panel?

With the lengths of the old wires coming into the subpanel I'm replacing/upgrading, it would make a much neater job to use 2 ground buss bars, one at the side and one at the top. The panel has mounting points in both places, but is it reasonable to mount 2, letting the metal of the panelboard bond them electrically? If not, would it be OK if I ran #6 cu between them (the biggest ground from the box being #6 cu).



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Old 04-01-08, 10:30 AM
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you can do that way but normally i useally get the largeset ground bar that can be used in the breaker box and they are only few bucks diffrence and make it eaiser to group it in one spot instead multi spots some case it can really eat up the time to find it [ it happend but not very often ]

just remember to keep the netrual and ground wire seprated at the subfeed box location.


Merci,Marc
 
 

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