dduffee260
Senior Member
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- Texas
When you install a service ground wire in a dwelling it goes to the footing, the cold water pipe, if the pipe is copper then to a ground rod.
Some people say this ground wire needs to be one continious piece from the ground rod to the panel ground bar or whatever route you install it. Some say it is ok to cut the wire as long as it is attached to a device that is suitable or listed for splicing the ground wire. Such as the ground bar on the panel or some type of ground lug. This means you have to thread the ground clamps or lugs over the wire then reattach the clamps, lugs, bars, etc. back to the attachment points.
What is your intrepetation of this? Can you take a listed ground lug and cut the wire then go two different ways? Does continious mean from point to point or not cut in any way?
Some people say this ground wire needs to be one continious piece from the ground rod to the panel ground bar or whatever route you install it. Some say it is ok to cut the wire as long as it is attached to a device that is suitable or listed for splicing the ground wire. Such as the ground bar on the panel or some type of ground lug. This means you have to thread the ground clamps or lugs over the wire then reattach the clamps, lugs, bars, etc. back to the attachment points.
What is your intrepetation of this? Can you take a listed ground lug and cut the wire then go two different ways? Does continious mean from point to point or not cut in any way?