My bud asked me to help him with his mobile home installation. He had failed to run a ground wire from the switch box at the meter to the switch box inside. The diagram on the box says the neutral has to be grounded and the ground wire has to be connected to a ground rod. Everything I've read says the ground is to be connected to the neutral at the switch box on the pole outside and nowhere else in the system should they be connected. We kinda argued a little as to which way is correct on how to wire the switch box outside. The complication is merely that there is one space on the neutral bar which is big enough for the stranded #4 ground wire OR the #4 bare ground wire but not BOTH. There is a lug in the box which appears to be solely for the bare ground wire and the stranded ground for the equipment. I took a couple of pictures of both configurations we came up with to solve this dilemma. However, I'm not comfortable with one or the other being right but looks to me like both should be acceptable since both the neutral bar and the ground connections are bonded to the switch box. So, which is right or wrong or best? The way the box is made it looks like it is supposed to have two ground rods.
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