[Paul S.]

I just partially rewired someone's garage. They had some NMB cable running through a piece of EMT that wasn't connected to anything else. I am thinking I need to bond this piece of pipe. (It goes overhead to another garage behind the one I rewired. Gotta love the maintenance man.) Anyway, I am hoping I can just put a ground clamp on that piece of pipe and hook it to a ground wire in the closest electrical box. (The garage is powered by one 15A multiwire circuit.) I remember reading something about having to bond both ends of the pipe but I have no idea whether that was just a discussion or if it is somewhere in the code book.

 

[Dmansee12]

Is there something keeping you from removing it completely? Is it going into the panel?

 

[freeagnt54]

Cut the romex put a box on the end and splice.

 

[papaotis]

the emt or the nmb wasnt connected to anything else?

 

[Paul S.]

It is the power for the second garage... it goes from one garage to the next... that's the way it was wired. The EMT is not connected to anything else, it is just a sleeve.

 

[freeagnt54]

the emt or the nmb wasnt connected to anything else?

I would believe that hes talking about the emt.

 

[papaotis]

in that case it would be a protective sleeve, the ground is in the nmb

 

[freeagnt54]

It also sounds like that emt goes outside or is exposed so it is considered a wet location and the nmb isn't rated for wet locations.

 

[Dmansee12]

in that case it would be a protective sleeve, the ground is in the nmb

Yep. What he said

 

[HARRY304E]

I just partially rewired someone's garage. They had some NMB cable running through a piece of EMT that wasn't connected to anything else. I am thinking I need to bond this piece of pipe. (It goes overhead to another garage behind the one I rewired. Gotta love the maintenance man.) Anyway, I am hoping I can just put a ground clamp on that piece of pipe and hook it to a ground wire in the closest electrical box. (The garage is powered by one 15A multiwire circuit.) I remember reading something about having to bond both ends of the pipe but I have no idea whether that was just a discussion or if it is somewhere in the code book.

Read, 250.32 Buildings or Structures Supplied by a Feeder(s) or Branch Circuit(s).

 

[papaotis]

yeah, harry, i guess i wasnt paying enough attention. that does make it a wet location !

 

[Dmansee12]

Cool i just learned something new! Thanks Harry

 

[Paul S.]

I'll check that out when I get home (250)... there's a 7 foot piece of conduit going between the buildings and I ran uf wire through the conduit... it is only a sleeve and I'm getting the impression that a sleeve does not need to be bonded... I hope I have this correct.

 

[daveEM]

Ground it anyway. It could become energized when the witches meet in Salem.

 

[markore]

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