BRYAN AMBROGIO
Member
- Location
- Winter Springs Fl
- Occupation
- Electrical Designer
I have a residence where the feed-thru meter and first means of disconnect are 24? apart. We are currently bonding the ground and the neutral together at the first means of disconnect. Per 2011 250.30 (A) (2) we need to run a bonding jumper back to the meter. The electrical contractor is telling us that the only lug on the meter base he can land the jumper on connects directly to the neutral lug. We did not want to bond at this point because this would create a parallel ground and neutral path. We then instructed the electrical contractor to just bond to the meter can only. He stated that the meter base is inherently bonded to the can with no removable bonding screw. We then instructed the electrical contractor to bond everything in the meter can. He stated that the meter base can only accept one ground wire. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this code legal without the electrical contractor having to make modifications to the meter base assembly or running parallel ground and neutral conductors?
Bryan
Bryan