Here's a more common configuration. Three houses on three seperate adjacent lots.

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It doesn't matter much what is going on in houses #1 & #2, one could shut off the service disconnect and remove the meter from the socket and there is still going to be neutral current.

This current flows when the house farther away from the transformer is unbalanced. The more the unbalance in #3, the more the current in #1 & #2.

If I live in House #2, under the NEC, how can I object to this and defend it to the AHJ?

Al

[This message has been edited by ElectricAL (edited 06-01-2002).]

Al Hildenbrand