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    561packrat Posts: 80, Reputation: 1
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    Sep 5, 2008, 07:12 PM
    Service to garage without remote disconnect
    Service to detached garage : starting at newly installed meter adjacent to existing house meter,3 2/0 copper conductors through 2" pvc conduit underground, to 200 AMP interior distribution panel in garage, approx. 60' run. Ground rod and #6 copper solid, adjacent to garage panel, same ground set-up at meter, plus grounded to house copper plumbing. Garage plumbing is all plastic. My question; with the above set-up does the neutral and ground in the garage panel stay bonded together. This is how the electrician did it, explaining that having/ not having disconnect at meter determines neutral/ ground bond. Does this sound correct? He energized it to check it, then blocked meter connection at socket to safe it till I call utility to initiate service.
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    Sep 6, 2008, 05:55 AM
    If he is going right from the meter to the garage then there is NO place to even land a separate equipment ground. A 3-wire lateral is all that is run, just like to your house.

    So you are saying the garage has it's own meter?
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    Sep 6, 2008, 11:03 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by stanfortyman
    If he is going right from the meter to the garage then there is NO place to even land a separate equipment ground. A 3-wire lateral is all that is run, just like to your house.

    So you are saying the garage has it's own meter?
    Yes it has it's own meter. Present goal is to use space as art studio, possibly in the future converting into efficiency apt.
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