wyliesdiesels
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looking better. kinda pointless to have 2 ground bars on same side of panel. can you move the right ground bar over to the left side of the panel?
Sub Panel Feed Wire Question
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gpiggaz
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I'm not an electrician, but I would probably just use one of the ground bars and forgo using both of them, I don't see any reason you'd need two in that sub panel.
Hopefully, your future plans don't call for more than 6 breakers- otherwise you'll need to add another means of disconnect ( another breaker between the feed and the power bus bars) to meet code.
Also, did you have any sort of Torque driver to set the torque on the screws? I would make sure I torqued the screws ( Breaker wires, Ground and Neutral) to the specs called out on both the panel and the breakers.
Nice job otherwise.
Hopefully, your future plans don't call for more than 6 breakers- otherwise you'll need to add another means of disconnect ( another breaker between the feed and the power bus bars) to meet code.
Also, did you have any sort of Torque driver to set the torque on the screws? I would make sure I torqued the screws ( Breaker wires, Ground and Neutral) to the specs called out on both the panel and the breakers.
Nice job otherwise.
wyliesdiesels
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Nope he wont need to do that. This is in an attached garage.
gpiggaz
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missed that it wasn't an out building, sorry I'll go back to lurking now
When I looked at the photo wondered if the tie bar had been removed between the bars mounted to the interior, I always cringe when that is done as it's rarely done right & defeats the purpose of having the convenience of a split neutral, being able to land the neutral on same side as where the hot is landed makes things easier, that feature first appeared in Gould/ITE (now Siemens) loadcenters in the late 1970's. If the electrician was using twin, or quad breakers, the neutral would line up below the load side of the circuit b
breaker, but I hate twins in new installations.
Edit: the OP will need a access panel to gain access to the misplaced LB if the drywall is replaced.
I didn't add any ground bars and I'm only using one of them. The small one on the right came installed in the panel. I don't see myself adding any more than 2 more circuits in the future since this is my attached 2 car garage. Also I didn't torque the screws but I dd wiggle them and tighten them several times until they wouldn't budge anymore so they should definitely be good to go.
Too much torque is as bad as too little, & it does sound like the tie bar was removed.
wyliesdiesels
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this particular modem doesnt have a tie bar. in previous comments this was gone over.... it came from the factory like this