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Old 12/22/11, 12:43 PM
Kerri L. Grabowski Kerri L. Grabowski is offline
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Default Neutral wire from main panel to furnace

This morning I looked at an electric Nortron furnace. The white nuetral wire from the main panel was not connected to the nuetral bus bar in the main panel , nor was it connected to a terminal (left uncapped) in the furnace.

Does it not have to be connected to "complete" the circuit"?

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Old 12/22/11, 12:55 PM
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Default Re: Neutral wire from main panel to furnace

If it is 240V it does not use the neutral wire. It should be grounded though. Either through the use of a green wire back to the panel or, if EMT is used, the EMT itself.


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