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[Joe Foley]

Hmm, you crashed into a tough one.

You might have inquired about "isolated" grounds and
"dedicated" grounds.

Also, I got into a big "discussion" about HOW the
boxes got bonded, the lead electrician read it to mean
that each ground wire was to be attached to the box
seperately, with it's own screw.  Not so!  All grounds
in each box will be tied to the box with ONE screw. 
That way the box is bonded but the steel of the box
isn't part of the ground path.

Joe

--- Tim Shoppa <shoppa_r390a at trailing-edge.com> wrote:

> > Commercial code here calls for only two-conductor
> BX cable (armored).
> > [...] Of course, BX armor is made of one of the
> most conductive metals
> > known to Man, the clamps in the Gem boxes are gold
> plated and [...]
> 
> I had a small, um, disagreement with local
> inspectors on this issue
> a few years ago.  We had run a separate ground wire
> inside flexible
> conduit because we explicitly did not trust a daisy
> chain of
> conduit-box-conduit-box connections (it was EMT, so
> the "connection"
> consisted of nothing but a set screw.)  The
> inspectors told us we
> were not allowed to run a ground wire.  Eventually,
> after going up
> the food chain and across the county, we got
> permission to run the
> ground wire (bonded at every box and to every
> outlet), but it was
> a lot of pain and effort to do it the right way.
> 
> Tim.
>


	
		
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