Timeline for How do I install a GFCI in a main panel without separate ground/neutral bars?
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| Sep 29, 2023 at 11:09 | comment | added | FreeMan | Doesn't "neutral to breaker, then neutral pigtail to neutral bar" apply to all GFCI breaker installations whether main panel, sub panel, or any other type of panel? (No, there aren't other types that I'm aware of - that's hyperbole.) | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 10:47 | comment | added | nobody | It doesn’t actually matter if this is a sub-panel or main. Three-wire subpanel feeds were perfectly legal until fairly recently, and it makes no difference whatsoever to the installation and functioning of GFCI breakers in the panel. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 4:34 | comment | added | popham | I'll upvote you if it turns out that you're right. I was thinking that maybe the power came from another structure across wires elevated on private poles. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 4:28 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | I am working under the assumption based on (a) a marked "Service Disconnect", (b) OP's statement that this is on the other side of the power pole (presumably == meter) and (c) a hunch that this is a standalone garage with its own service. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 4:26 | comment | added | popham | I was skeptical that this was a main panel because there's no feeder wires running off to the subpanel in the property's residential structure. I vaguely recall that there's a code requirement that rejects the possibility of two services for a single property except for very rare circumstances, so my intuition is that there can't be two main panels. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 4:19 | history | answered | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |