New electrical question

[notamustang]

Beat me to it. Shouldnt that be "MR" Inspecor507. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Junkman]

Started to work on it today and another question cropped up. The electric stove is 220 volt and there are two hots and a bare ground. I assume that the bare ground wire goes to the neutral bar along with the white wires? Thanks... Junk..

 

[notamustang]

The bare ground would go to the ground buss.
If the stove has a clock or timer their should either a transformer or they are 220v. The stove should also have a wiring diagram were the wires enter or on the exterior near the conections.
Steven

 

[Junkman]

thanks..... I just don't know that I have enough energy left to move it. Besides it is too short to reach.
I started at 8:30 AM and I finally gave up at 7:00 PM. I turned off the power to the house at the generator disconnect and also at the 200 Amp main by the meter. Then I fired up the portable generator and used a flood light to illuminate my working space. Misplaced a few tools in the poorly lit basement and had to keep looking for other tools that I forgot to bring down with me. I have one more romex that needs to be put back in the panel and then I am through. I figure that we can live without lights in the master bath for one night. If the wife or I don't know where the toilet is by now, lights aren't going to help. Here is the picture of the panel before I started. The electrician that I had hired 20 years ago left this mess when he broke up with his wife. His father in law was helping me on the house at the time and I guess that he felt that this was his way of getting the father in law more annoyed at him than he already was. I tried to get an electrician to straighten it out, but everyone that looked at it, just walked away shaking there head. So that has been the way it has been for the past 25 years. Guess that it was OK, but messy, because nothing ever went up in smoke. Just never could get a cover on the panel. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Junkman]

This is what it looks like now and hopefully tomorrow I will be able to finish the few details left and put the cover on for the first time in 25 years. Then I will turn everything in the house on and have the wife tell me what goes off as I toggle breakers. It I can figure out all the circuits, then I will post it on the door panel like it should be... All the bare copper wires are now on the left and there is a #4 copper wire going from them to the ground under the panel driven into the cellar floor before it was poured. This #4 copper ground wire goes to the well about 100 feet away. It also hits about 4 more driven ground rods on its path. One piece of wire that was a bear to get through all the electrical boxes tying all the grounds wires together. Now I know why electricians get the big bucks for what they do. It isn't easy work and redoing someone else's mess makes it just that much harder. I will sleep well this evening knowing that my electrical service now meets the latest code.... I hope..... a very tired Junk.... thanks to everyone that helped with advise...

 

[Junkman]

This is what the grounding area looked like before I started... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[notamustang]

UMMM <font color="red"> (shaking head and walking away) </font> /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I hate cleaning up panels, but you gotta do it sometimes. Looks good /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Freaking stupid judges !!! )</font>

You have just added this to your signature........ what's up with the judges???? Did you loose another speeding ticket challenge???? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[notamustang]

No I dont have anything fast enough to get a speeding ticket. Well not assembled.
No that stupid <font color="pink"> "Gay Marriage" </font> thing. Hey if thats you like style fine, dont cram it down the rest of the natural worlds throat.
We also have an ongoing issue in San Diego with a war memorial cross that has some idiot whinning that it has to be removed.
So I am just venting a bit....ok maybe lot /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[techman]

Per NEC that is not true. The purpose of separation is to keep circuit current off of the ground conductors. It does not matter if the sub and main are nect to each other or a mile apart.

paul