<div dir="auto">Definitely best practice to do so, in fact probably not safe as it’s wired now. I know some inverters won’t work at all with “neutral loops” and are sophisticated enough to feel it, and stop inversion until the electrician fixes it</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 5:48 AM Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">See 300.3(B). I think that's what you are looking for.<br>
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM William Miller via RE-wrenches<br>
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> I found a grid-tie battery-backup system with a 120/240 VAC critical loads sub-panel that has no neutral run to it. All of the 120 VAC loads have their neutrals land in the meter panel.<br>
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> I have always felt instinctively that the neutrals should land in the breaker panel that feeds the circuit. I have looked through the NEC to find a passage that spells this out but I can seem to find one.<br>
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> Is this a code requirement? Is this recommended practice?<br>
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