Stevareno
Senior Member
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- Dallas, TX
I understand this requirement is for increased safety, but are there other factors that prompted this change?
Also, the code requires that the neutral be grouped with the phase wires they are associated with as they enter the panel. I didn't realize this at first and instead, I marked the neutral conductors with number markers indicating which circuits they pertained to.
After explaining to the inspector that what I did accomplishes the same thing as grouping, he let me get away with it "this time".
Why would the code not allow marking the neutrals in such a way?
I pride myself on making a panel not look like a rat's nest, and this grouping requirement makes things more complicated. How do you cope?
Also, the code requires that the neutral be grouped with the phase wires they are associated with as they enter the panel. I didn't realize this at first and instead, I marked the neutral conductors with number markers indicating which circuits they pertained to.
After explaining to the inspector that what I did accomplishes the same thing as grouping, he let me get away with it "this time".
Why would the code not allow marking the neutrals in such a way?
I pride myself on making a panel not look like a rat's nest, and this grouping requirement makes things more complicated. How do you cope?