AFCI and GFCI Neutral Pigtail too short

[Jimmy7]

Have you ever spliced the neutral pigtail coming from the afci and gfci breaker because it was too short? I have, and out of curiosity I looked it up with a couple of manufacturer’s websites. It’s kind of rough learning these things after the fact. Is this a big deal in your opinion. What would you do with past installations when things like this are discovered?

 

[ptonsparky]

Too short?!
I almost always cut them off.
Splice if you need to or rearrange the breaker positions.

Still, too short?

 

[Jimmy7]

I found this in Eaton’s AFCI installation instructions

 

[ramsy]

Is this a big deal in your opinion.

IMHO Eaton is not allowing extending the pigtail, when SPD is built-in to the device, a unique feature of Eaton xFCI's.

All instructions for stand alone SPD also specify keeping pigtails as short as possible.

 

[Little Bill]

Too short?!
I almost always cut them off.
Splice if you need to or rearrange the breaker positions.

Still, too short?

I always uncurl the pigtail and cut it off if too long. I think I've only encountered one device where it was too short. I just rearranged the breakers and put the device where the pigtail would reach.