Farmhouse1890
New Member
I am installing a 50 amp subpanel to my second floor to tie in numerous circuits that have resulted from a gut rebuild of all of the rooms. I am running 6/3 wire with ground to the subpanel. There is more than enough capacity for mostly 15 amp lighting and receptacle circuits. I plan to use AFCIs on the 10 or so new circuits that will tie into the subpanel. I understand that on this GE panel it is typical to separate the neutral and ground bus bars and use a screw to ground the ground bus bar to the panel. However in using two columns of AFCIs, it would then be necessary to have the white wire from the AFCIs on the column near the grounding bar run over the AFCIs on the other side to tie into the neutral bar. My plan is to keep the two bars connected as neutral and not ground to the panel so that the white wires from the AFCIs can tie into the bar closest to them. I would feed the ground wires into the separate grounding bus bar that is already part of the panel. Any problem with doing it this way or suggestions for a better way? Thanks