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I ran conduit from a 100 amp disconnect on a pedestal to the corner of the mobile home, 90 elbow up to an LB, sawed a hole in the skirting and glued a 12 inch nipple through to underneath the mobile home. I ran #2, 4 wire URD through conduit from the disco to the LB ounce under the mobile home, I ran the 4 wire up high, I supported the URD to the bottom of the home up off the pad. was told by a local inspector that the feeder wires needed to be in a conduit under the mobile home all the way to the Panel, where in the 2017 code book can i find this? Thanks Jeff
 
URD is not an NEC recognized cable type. It must be dual listed as an NEC-recognized type. Permitted and not permitted uses will depend on type. It is quite common for URD to be dual listed as USE-2. You can't run USE above ground except to terminate where it emerges and even that has to be outside [338.12(B)(2)]. Now if the individual conductors happen to be marked XHH*, you can run it above ground in conduit.
 
ActionDave said:
Putting aside the URD naming issue since most of it is dual rated, 300.3 means that you can't run exposed conductors, they have to be in a cable assembly or in conduit.
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Or with the USE rating - direct buried at a depth that complies with 300.5.
 
ActionDave said:
Since the OP is talking about a mobile home I am of the mind to say he is using URD as a slang term, like so many of us do, and what he really has is mobile home feeder that is direct bury rated and is allowed to be used inside.
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Perhaps he'll enlighten us...
 
ActionDave said:
Since the OP is talking about a mobile home I am of the mind to say he is using URD as a slang term, like so many of us do, and what he really has is mobile home feeder that is direct bury rated and is allowed to be used inside.
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I agree, but it still is for direct burial or use in a raceway and not as an exposed wiring method.

Seen it used exposed several times myself, worse yet enclosed in building finish with no raceway like it were a NM or SE cable.
 
kwired said:
I agree, but it still is for direct burial or use in a raceway and not as an exposed wiring method.

Seen it used exposed several times myself, worse yet enclosed in building finish with no raceway like it were a NM or SE cable.
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So what's your point, that the OP should bury the mobile home to a depth of twenty four inches?
 
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