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Main breakers at meter which was on other wall.
Note covers for different units touching ground and neutral bond strap in place bottom two breakers not wired no labels ![]() ![]()
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Please Note:
Marc D. Shunk is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
The bond strap should not be in place when the panel is fed from a meter center such as the one you have shown, where overcurrent protection is provided in the meter center. Those panels should also be subfed, with 4-wire cable. All the grounding electrode conductors should terminate in that meter center.
The covers overlapping is more of a workmanship issue, and I personally don't see any real hazard. Seems like you can get either one or the other off without removing both. Looks ugly, but that's about the extent of it. The breakers that are installed without any wiring is of no consequence, and is certainly not a hazard. It is quite common to have a commercial panel fully loaded with "spares". There is no general requirement that a spare breaker be labeled as such, as there is no particular hazard created by having an unlabeled breaker that doesn't serve any loads. It is rather uncommon to find installed spares in a residential setting, but some installers may pop one in to fill a mistakenly removed cover knockout if a filler plate isn't right at hand. |
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Thanks Mark.
1 I was referring to the entire panel having no labels. 2 Conduit is ground so you mean 3 wires right 3 thought the panels touching is like them being bonded together hence an issue if one is electrified I have been calling out the neutral / ground bond issue, and notice it is common when the Remote distubution panel is in the basement rather than in the condo units. |
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