Ground or too short from meter base.

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zappy

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Looked at a job today. The meter base is outside of the house, and a nipple comes from the back of it, into the garage right into the main panel. There's two hots and a solid bare ground wire coming out of it. Well the solid bare Grd. wire is too short to reach the NEU/GRD buss bar, so they spliced with a wirenut on to it with another piece, so they could reach it. Is this legal?
 
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Since you said "two hot and a solid bare ground wire" I would assume that the bare wire is a neutral? What size is the solid conductor?
 
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infinity said:
A #6 solid conductor is not permitted to be pulled into a raceway. :roll:
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Good catch Trevor. I mentioned that about 2 years ago when I joined the forum and I got pooh poohed and was told no inspector would turn that down for a back to back connection like that.

In my case I used the nipple to bring a piece of #6 as the EGC between an exterior main panel to an interior sub panel . The feeders were also in that nipple. I was a good 45 minutes to the supply house and I didn't have a piece of #6 stranded on the truck. Got red tagged for it.
 
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benaround said:
I don't believe 'big blue wire nuts' are listed for 2-#6 conductors, in the USA.
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I am confused by that with this statement from CSA.:-? You may be correct I just don't see why.Statement from Ideal

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Dennis,

On the bag that I looked at it had a top section that was UL and 2 #6's were not on the

list. The bottom was CSA and 2 #6's were ok ? Go figure ! Check it out next time you have

the time and interest.
 
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310-3

310-3 from 2005 NEC code edition

Stranded Conductors. Where installed in raceways, conductors of size
8 AWG and larger shall be stranded
 
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