Pete C. wrote:

Doug Miller wrote:

In article , Tazz wrote:

isnt pigtailing in the panel also a code violation?

No.


I thought you had to either put each home run or branch circuit on its
on breaker OR have it made up in a J-box intead of taking to the panel
and pigtailing

Lots of people think that -- but nobody's been able to show me where the Code
says that...

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.


Right, the panel is a listed enclosure where you can make splices. It's
more of a best practices thing since the panel tends to get crowded
anyway and having splices and pigtails in the panel just makes it that
much messier.

Pete C.

I believe it is covered by NEC 312.8 - "Enclosures for switches or
overcurrent devices". Splices are allowed if the fill at any
cross-section is 75% or less.

Wires running through the enclosure are allowed if the fill at any
cross-section is 40% or less. An example would be if the panel ran out
of breakers, existing breakers could be removed to add a breaker for a
subpanel and the wires for the original breakers could be run through
the panel to the new subpanel.

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