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What’s Wrong Here? Hint: If Two Is Company, and Three’s a Crowd — What’s 10?

Dec. 18, 2012 Russ LeBlanc | Electrical Construction and Maintenance

Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?

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Anonymous (not verified)
on Jan 5, 2013

violation of 408.40 and 110.3B. Where is the terminal bar?

Chuck_Reel
on Jan 9, 2013

The violation is actually of article 408.41, "Each grounded conductor shall terminate within the panelboard in an individual terminal that is not also used for another conductor". Connecting multiple grounding conductors at a single lug can contribute to loose grounding connections among other things.

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