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| I just hired an electrical company to upgrade my service to 200 amps, which cost a lot of $$. They just did the job last week and I'm waiting for the bill ($3200) but haven't paid yet. They said they would follow the codes, so I'm checking that now due to one violation I have seen already. The violation involves an original junction box that they said the would need to replace (they finished the job and its still there).
Originally I had a 100 amp service cutoff in the garage which fed two 100 amp (capacity) panels in the house (upstairs and downstairs). This was original to the house built in 1951. The new service created a 200 amp feed-through service in the garage, converted the downstairs panel to a 200 amp main panel, and kept the original 100 amp subpanel upstairs now as a subpanel from the downstairs panel. I know they didn't follow the NEC code in one area (junction box) so now I'm questioning the whole job...
First of all, are all these wire sizes OK? They told me the metallic underground is suitable for bonding as well, so they didn't need to run a second #2 ground; therefore the #6 wire is extra grounding. Second, is it OK for the subpanel wires to travel back through the same conduit to get to the junction box and then upstairs? I think this may not be allowed.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Junction Box
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- Posted by electomechanical (My Page) on Sun, Mar 28, 10 at 21:42
| What did your inspector say about it? |
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| It will be inspected next week. Since there are no splices in the junction box it may be OK to not change it. |
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| The inspector said it was OK. He didn't look in the new subpanel, AND therefore didn't notice that the ground and neutral bar were connected in it. He told me he didn't look in it (afterwards over the phone) and told me that he knows the company that did it (he's good friends with the owner), and he trusts that they must have done it right. Regarding the junction box, he said don't worry about it. (Never mind the codes). |
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| The JB does not really look all that full. How did you decide on the required volume? Grounds only count as a single conductor of the largest size present. |
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