[left]Hi, so I recently been looking at my main circuit breaker panel since I was looking to install a 220v receptacle in the garage for some of the tools. I did some research on grounding and bonding but I am still little confused. From what I understand, the main panel has to be bonded, meaning the ground and neutral are joined together, right? This is already done in my main circuit breaker box and I don’t have a subpanel. However, I have few questions and make sure that it is bonded correctly. 1) Once you bond neutral and ground together on the same bus bar do you need to have a separate ground bar? 2) My ground is from the cold water pipe and there are no ground rod or at least I didn’t see any. I was looking to put a ground rod outside and bring in a #6 ground wire to the neural bus bar for extra protection. Is that okay? 3) Wiring 220v required (2) hot wire (110x2) and a ground wire. If I connect the ground wire in the neural rod, isn’t that ground and neutral at the same time? Is that okay if I do that? How does it differentiate between ground and neutral if they’re both bonded together on the same bar? I am also attaching a picture of my main breaker panel. Please let me know if you see anything wrong with it. I only have one bus bar and both neutral and ground are connected and also the metal bar extended from the same neutral/ground bar and secured to the breake box to ground the box also. Thank you in advance for your time. [/left]

[left]Moved into an old house, before I moved in the old galvanized pipes had been replaced with copper,. I went to pull out the old galvanized ones and found a ground wire connected to it, the wire goes back to the bracket panel. Do I need to leave these in? Can I still take them out? Thanks [/left]