I need to add an isolated ground bus bar to a small subpanel recently installed and realized if I mount it with standard metal screws, I’ll bond it to the panel which is what I’m trying to resolve. Does anyone have thoughts/ experience on how this is to be accomplished? Thanks.
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SqD makes ground bar isolator kits...
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maybe HD and Lowes carry them ?
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HD carries them..
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be careful out there..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
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What you want is the ground bonded to the sub-panel (box), and the neutral isolated from it. If the existing neutral is properly isolated, then what you've already got is right.
-- J.S.
Sorry, yes, I did mean to indicate that the bus will be used to isolate the neutrals, I just have never heard of it referred to as a 'neutral bus/ bar'... thanks all.
It is the neutral bar (aka a 'floating neutral') which is supposed to be isolated ina sub-panel, not the ground bar.
The ground bar should be bonded to the panel box itself.
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