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Default EMT electrical conduit -- how many NM wires?

On Friday, July 12, 2013 2:15:55 PM UTC-7, Doug Miller wrote:
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You can�t have any NM cable inside a conduit.


It has to be single conductors.




Absolute nonsense. NM cable is permitted inside conduit in any location where NM is

permitted without conduit.


NEC Note 9 in the Chapter 9 tables says
"A multi conductor cable of two or more conductors shall be treated as a single conductor for calculating percentage fill area. For cables that have
elliptical cross section, the cross section area calculation shall be based on using the major diameter of the ellipse as a circle diameter".