Panel box question

[woodlot]

He's probibly talking about your statement of "no other grounding needed." you are right about 4 wires and no bonding of the neutral bus bar at the sub but I beleive that if the sub-panel is in a remote building that the equipment ground bus bar needs to be tired to ground (8 foot copper rods x2). I am not an electriction. Inspector, could you elaborate?

 

[KubotaSteve]

The garage is going to be attached to the house via a mud room. Since the garage and mudroom are going to be built, they will have to go through all the permit stages and must meet code. All wire being run to the garage will be inside a structure as opposed to going outside under ground.
My old man has a stick welder that runs off a 40 or 50 amp breaker that I may hook up in the garage. That is why I was thinking of going with a 100 amp sub panel in the garage.

 

[Inspector507]

Then by all means, a separate grounding electrode is NOT required.

 

[Inspector507]

sparkkky,
I'm sorry if you took offense. None intended. I'm used to inspecting according to the national/international codes, and your area may have decided not to adopt those. There are lots of jurisdictions that "do their own thing". No problem with that either. We have a local county that is still working on the 1999 NEC®, even though there has been 2 revisions since then.

 

[sparkkky]

No extra means required here even if its two different buildings, and yes our citys around here do not addopt the new book for years.

Bottom line is nobody would ever know the difference unless ONE poor sucker fried himself because of it, and everybody in the know knows thats why we get a new book every three years with around 3000 changes that waffle back and forth is because its alright then its not alright then its ok again, just like the Temp. lighting could be romex, then it had to be S.O. now romex is alright again. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Insp. I would prefer if you have a issue that you just say what you mean, as I am not under your jurisdiction.