This was extending to a critical load panel. I am not an AC electrician but my
guy is & had to set a gutter. It was a nice neat cut-in above the panel.
Sorry I cannot quote the NEC section I was not present. Id say check with your
AHJ........
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Hi Dana;
What code section is he/ she referencing? Many times, wires are left too short
to land on a particular breaker or buss, so splices in the load center happen
even in regular electrical work. Our inspectors here consider a load center
the same as any other electrical enclosure: subject to wire and splice fill
requirements. We've beaten this dead horse subject before, many years back.
So your inspector would require you to tear into a finished wall to install a
gutter, just to relocate a breaker in the same panel, and extend the circuit
wire with a splice? What if you accidentally cut one neutral wire a few inches
short; suddenly you need the custom plaster crew back out to patch? I've had
MLPs installed in walls with very expensive wall finishes. I'm not tearing into
that wall unless it's the only way. The majority of inspectors are not
electricians.
Code citations, please.
Thanks,
Ray Walters
Remote Solar
On 8/1/2024 2:44 PM, Dana Orzel via RE-wrenches wrote:
Wire nuts in a breaker panel are not allowed per my inspector per code. Pull
the Romex out of the breaker panel & spllce in a wire gutter to extend.
I have seen this enforced twice now.
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