[RE-wrenches] Bonding bushings?

Alex Cozine acdc.cozine at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 07:51:25 PST 2013


Just ran in to that.  two foot EMT raceway from a production meter into the
grid panel.  we had to take it out of the emt and run it on the outside to
make the inspector happy, I mean, to meet code.


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:22 AM, August Goers <august at luminalt.com> wrote:

> Jesse,
>
> Any metallic raceway that has a GEC running through it needs bonding. So,
> if you've got the Enphase DC-GEC running through it then, yes, it would
> need bonding fittings. At least that's my take on it.
>
> Check out NEC 250.64(E) towards the second half of the paragraph. 2011 NEC
> has a nice clarification point and directs you to 250.92(B)(2) through
> (B)(4).
>
> Best,
>
> August
>
>
> August Goers
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Dahl
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:45 AM
> To: Wrenches
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Bonding bushings?
>
> If you are using micro inverters and terminating them in an AC combiner
> panel, does the feed for the AC combiner panel (125A) need to have bonding
> bushings for the ground wire?  In other words is this ground wire a
> GEC/Equipment ground like might be used if running an inverter output to a
> panel?  The raceway is already in and is EMT.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jesse
>
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Alex Cozine
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