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On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 10:46:58 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 10:20:06 PM UTC-5, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 2/26/20 7:26 PM, Tom Biasi wrote:
On 2/26/2020 1:10 PM, wrote:
If you do not have an existing separate ground coming from the house,
you will need to add a ground rod in the pump-house to ground the
sub-panel.

A sub panel should not have the neutral and earth ground bonded. They
need to be separate.


Absolutely. The ONLY place the Neutral should be connected to ground
is a the service panel (the one with the Meter).


Why not just to the one where the branch circuits all connect (if different from where the meter is)?


What happens when that one wire opens? A bad neutral is a very common fault. Then you have no place for a fault current to go. RIP!.