Now I think you get the picture. George and I were discussing this topic because it happened on one of the jobs I was inspecting and we are seeing this quite often. I made the contractor pull a neutral the same size as the line conductors feeding the emergency through the nipple carrying the branch circuits back to the main house panel. I also made him terminate that neutral on an additional neutral bar where he would connect the neutrals from the circuits being fed from the emergency panel. This would in effect make the house panel be nothing more than a junction box for the circuits being fed from the emergency panel and it would also resolve the inductive problems by having a neutral included with the branch circuit conductors in the same nipple. I hope that helps explain the problem and how I asked the contractor to resolve it. George’s original question is still unanswered though. We are seeing manufacturers of the generator equipment telling the contractors the original installation is fine. Is anyone eles anyone seeing this as well?
Tony
