Re: Honda Generator Circuit Breaker Replacement?

Wiliam Schnabel <wschnabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:BFA272FB.7D5%wschnabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Wow.
> I just read through this thread I started. I didn't intend to start a
> debate about the operation of GFCIs, but I did learn a thing or two.

It is the nature of usenet you've just seen. Since you've gotten something
out of the mild fray my time wasn't wasted.

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> I could be wrong. My father-in-law is a retired electrician, and I have
> have tried to explain to him several times why my home's panel is
> unbonded, while the main service panel that feeds it is bonded. I have
> told him that in the eyes of the NEC, a manufactured home is just a
> giant appliance that plugs into source power, and all feed conductors
> must be separate back to the source.

The general rule is that there is only one point where the system has a
bond between ground and neutral, and that's at the main disconnect. That's
why you should have a 4 wire feed to the house panel. Yes,there are
additional rules for barns, etc.

> Thanks for all the replies, I really didn't mean to start a ruckus.

Well next time you might as well intend to because as you see it happens
anyway. LOL

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