Subject:  Bonding screws (fwd)
Date:     Fri, 12 Jun 1998 095356 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:51:08 -0500
From: Edward Maxey 
To: Tanner-Soto@pol.net, "Bobbie L." ,
    "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Bonding screws

Hello again Bobbie Tanner-Soto and Roy,

Firemen use the "service Disconnecting means" 
to detach a building's electric service.  It consists 
of up to six switches or circuit breakers located 
either inside or outside a building, but next to the 
electric service entrance.  Panel bonding screws, 
which connect the load side neutral bus and ground 
bus, are prohibited under NEC 250-23(a).  Such 
bonding screws are often responsible for high EMFs 
in homes and businesses.  City inspectors in both
Fayetteville and Springdale, Arkansas, were 
requiring electric contractors to install such 
bonding screws until recently, when the violation
was called to their attention.  Neither city has 
apprised its sitizens of the hazard imposed by the
bonding screws installed in prior years.

If your panel has such a bonding screw it is probable
that significant return current flows through it.  If the
screw can not be removed, for whatever reason, a net
current control may be installed as per the attached
photograph.

Good luck again,
Ed

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