You obviously haven't been advised properly. LIGHTNING does not turn
corners well. It will NOT follow the copper if it has sharp bends. The
best way to protect a piece of equipment from lightning is to tie a knot in
the cord. You'll also notice on houses with lightning rods, the cable
coming from them will have nice big easy bends where it comes around the
gutters and down the side. Lightning will blow right out the side of a
conductor that has too tight a bend in it. NOW, back on the topic of the
ground cable in an electrical panel, the tight bends don't matter, because
that ground is not for lighting protection anyway.

--
Steve Barker



"Mike Ryan" wrote in message
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Why would sharp bends do anything? As long as the wire is continuous
the electrons will flow whatever shape the wire is.

I had someone tell me that making sharp bends in romex was bad too.
Thats bull****. Electricity follows the copper. Bends dont matter.
When I wire something I always like to make it look neat bu bending
the wires around corners and keeping the bends tight to the structure.