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#117159 05/25/04 08:25 AM
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Bob,
Most of the 3/4" LTFMC we use is listed as an equipment grounding conductor up to 60 Amps, 1/2" to 20 Amps.

LT can be an EGC, up to six feet total.

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250.118(7)(d)The combined length of flexible metal conduit and flexible metallic tubing and liquidtight flexible metal conduit in the same ground return path does not exceed 1.8 m (6 ft).

It looks to me like more than six feet in the photo and I just get the feeling the entire run is in un supported LT. [Linked Image]

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#117160 05/26/04 07:05 AM
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Yes, Bob, you're right!
I had completely spaced out & forgotten the 6'limit...Sorry...S

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Might have been color blind? And the other violations, well we'll just chalk those up to a very hard drinkin weekend and this was the first job on a monday morning for them. or they paid the home depot gut to come out on the side and do it.

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So is the terminal strip at the top a grounding bar (green wire coming in with feed from the left) Or is it a neutral bar (black wire coming in with feed from the left)?

There I go assuming the feed is the left hand side. [Linked Image]


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#117164 05/27/04 07:30 AM
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Oh my, What a concept! Feed from the right! [Linked Image]
We are also assuming that the bar is at ground potential. It could be hot, and one of the other legs could be the neut (except for Randy's V readings).
There you go using common sense again, Bob [Linked Image]

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Alrighty then! Here's the deal as far as I could gather...
Customer called someone from the "Thrifty Nickel" to move the subpanel as he was having stone work done on the wall in question & didn't want to see the panel from his "Theatre Room" window.. (Isn't the thrifty nickel the first place someone with an 8 car garage full of things like a Ferrari Enzo, Porsche GT2, 4 Harleys & a tour bus sized RV would normally shop? [Linked Image] )so it was moved about 40'.. (The length of the sealtite on the load side, line side was about 20'..) You can see how thrilled the homeowner looks [Linked Image] At first, the HO's wife told me she thought the lights were controlled by a timer at the pool equiptment area.. This is where I started my troubleshoot since the pool equiptment was running... Looked in the timers & found nothing, found a 2G W/p box kinda sitting on the edge of the fence & got the weird readings.. followed the sealtite back to the subpanel.
The terminal bar in the subpanel (Square D Homeline.. Depots panel of champions! [Linked Image] ) had BOTH neutrals & grounds landed on it... It does feed from left to right... (50A 240V from a seriously packed 200A meter/distribution combo) The 2 blacks on the terminal bar are neutral/ground for a BBQ about 80' away... At the w/p box, the hot was tied to neutral for the 20A ckt! [Linked Image] Course, how would he know? 3 black #12's! The original EGC from the w/p box on was #10..
I sent Bill more pics to post from this place to give a better idea of the layout & a few more things you guys might find provocative! [Linked Image]

-Randy

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More pics to reveal just how expansive this place is! The photo of the 2G W/P box is where I came across the funky readings... In-use outlet, no GFI, No Cover!, ... Packed to the gills old Crouse-Hinds 200A meter/distribution combo, missing its dead-front!... (anyone else ever notice that the punie contacts on these 1/2 sized breakers seem to get "Zinsco-itis"!.. LB open upon my arrival! (Why do I seem to find alcohol & code violations together? [Linked Image] )

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#117168 05/28/04 08:07 PM
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Besides industry accepted field practices, where is green prohibited from being used as an ungrounded conductor? [Linked Image]

In the first picture there would be a violation of 310.12(C) (just for one violation) in any case.

Roger

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