Re: about grounds… a New Discussion+

[George Handley]

Michael, et all,

Just to make sure I was reporting the facts, I just spent some time at my breaker boxes to confirm exactly the electrical grounding between them.

At first, I believed the two boxes were bonded together due to the metal connecting ell that takes the 100A feed over to the other new box. But, I was mistaken, it's a plastic fitting which really blew my position. But, I then examined all the big wires more closely, and have confirmed that both my neutral and ground buses in the original box have #6 or larger wires separately going from the original breaker box to the sub panel's neutral and ground buses.

Therefore, both my breaker boxes are DIRECTLY connected to the main bare copper ground going to the KCP&L pedestal.

This setup, and the fact that the bare ground wire IS connected to my utility's ground is what is at contention from Warren, James and others.

Hope I've made myself clearer.

Thanks,

George



  On Oct 12, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Michael Ferguson <michael at shed.com> wrote:

> Hello George,
> 
> Are you describing things that you did before or after the discovery and correction
> of your power main connections ?
> 
> michael
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:49 AM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It wasn't until I disconnected the ground wire to this unit, that sanity returned. So, I believe I know, first hand, that the grounding wire and X10 do have a meaningful electrical purpose.
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