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    Sep 24, 2007, 09:37 PM
    Main lug panel installation
    I have spliced into a 220 feed running to my pump house to run power to a playhouse.
    There were 3 direct burrial #6 awg cables. When I tracked them I had 2 hot and one Neutral, No ground was ran with them. At the pump house the panels ground bar was grounded by copper and rebar into the earth. The playhouse will only need a 120V feed.

    My question is now that I have spliced into the wires and ran them into the 60amp 4 breaker Siemens main lug box, how do I finish the job? Im assuming that both hots go to the blade terminals and the neutral to the neutral bar, grounds from playhouse to ground and black from playhouse to breakers and white to neutral bar. Should I run a jumper from the ground bar out of the box and into the earth with rebar like the pump house panel?

    The box comes with 2blades and a isolated neutral bar, I have purchased and installed a ground bar which is screwed down to the box.
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    Sep 25, 2007, 02:21 AM
    With a 3 wire feed such as this, the subpanel needs at least one ground rod connecting to both the neutral and equipment ground in the subpanel. There should be a green screw fro bonding the neutral to the metal can of the panel.
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    Sep 25, 2007, 10:18 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by tkrussell
    With a 3 wire feed such as this, the subpanel needs at least one ground rod connecting to both the neutral and equipment ground in the subpanel. There should be a green screw fro bonding the neutral to the metal can of the panel.
    Thanks again for the advise.

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