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On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:24:35 -0700, you wrote:
>There is another way to do it, and that's what I'm doing with a similar
>feed. I am treating my two buildings as separate (they're about 30 ft
>apart). I have a single service, which comes to the house, then is fed
>to the garage/apartment that houses my shack. There is NO ground
>connection between the house and the shack -- the feed from the service
>is two hots and a neutral only. In the garage/shack, this allows me to
>bond neutral at the entry panel. Note also that there are no other
>cables carrying "ground" between the two buildings.
REPLY:
I'm not an electrician but I'm pretty sure that is not according to
code. You should have four wires, not three, going from the house to
the shack: Two hots, a neutral and ground. Having no ground in the
shack is asking for trouble. And I do NOT mean a ground rod in the
shack - I mean a green ground wire from the service entrance to the
shack.
73, Bill W6WRT
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