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wire nut connections
(Greg) wrote in message ...
Do not use solder on Equipment Grounding Conductor splices. It can fail
and spatter under fault conditions.
You mean ground electrode conductors don"t you? EGCs will be protected by the
same overcurrent device as the ubngrounded conductor.
Nope, he means equipment grounding conductor, aka The Bare Wire, or
The Green Wire, or The Ground Wire. The overcurrent device takes
non-zero time to open, even under very high current (as in, a dead
short) and the ground path needs to carry that current for that period
of time. Soldered connections can melt and open or, perhaps worse,
become resistive arcs, maybe before the overcurrent device can trip.
I don't know if it's code (US and/or Canada) but of those DIY books
that even mention solder connections, most say to use crimps or
wirenuts on ground wires.
Chip C
Toronto
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