<div dir="ltr">Hi William,<div><br></div><div>These are 120/240 systems. These are multi-wire branch circuits, but the load pairings are uncommon. For example, on the last hybrid we did, we found that a heat tape circuit and garage lights shared a neutral. The garage lights were on the opposite side of the home as the heat tape circuit. They must have saved 30' of #10 wire by sharing this neutral. We wanted the garage lights on the critical load panel but not the heat tape circuit. We ended up keeping the garage lights out of the critical load panel. I think that there is no code-compliant way to do this (besides rewiring) because of the shared raceway requirement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:31 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com" target="_blank">william@millersolar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mac:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Is your system 120 or 120/240? If it is 120 only and if your shared neutrals are part of a multi-wire branch circuit, you have problems. The only solution I know of is to combine the circuits so they are on the same phase and share the same OCPD. Otherwise it’s time to rewire.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If these are not multi-wire branch circuits, I am not sure why they are sharing a neutral. In any case, the circuits should be combined or rewired.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">William Miller<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mac Lewis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 08, 2014 9:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> RE-wrenches<br><b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] shared neutral critical load panel<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello wrenches,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">When installing hybrid systems and consolidating critical load panel circuits, how do you deal with shared neutrals? We have moved both of these loads into the critical load panel or negotiated both loads being left out of the critical load panel because of this shared neutral issue. Is there any code-compliant way of splitting these up?<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We have ran into some unfortunate neutral sharing load pairings lately that have been a headache and should never have shared a neutral.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance<br>-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Mac Lewis<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#ff9900"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p><span style="color:#305a78">"Yo solo sé que no sé nada." </span><b><span style="color:#686868">-Sócrates</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#ff9900"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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