On a servie call today i found...

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The neutral in a 150amp panel was "spliced" with a split bolt, its good and tight, taped and with a no-ox compound,..keep in mind this is in the panel itself.. The lugs have a steady reading, is this Ok?, code wise?

The call wasnt in regard to this, a plumber installing a steam unit screwed through a wire.

I knew plumbers were good for something ;)
 
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jim sorry , i just read that post myself it was confusing.

When i said the lugs had a steady reading all i meant was that the neutral had a good connection, it wasnt flickering on the tester.

when i said code wise i meant , Does anything in the NEC not allow the splice of the neutral feeding the main panel.

Sorry my first post wansnt very clear at all.
 
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They sure can tonyi but i hate to do it. Looks like crud. ugly as hell!!!
 
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Last year I was fixing a bunch of code violations in a 4 unit apt building and one of the service cables was about 1" too short. The guy who did the original install apparently forgot that the twisted up neutral is going to shrink some :D . That particular unit had been displaying all the symptoms of a loose neutral and sure enough - it was stretched tight like music wire and only had about 3 strands engaged under the lug and was loose.

Naturally the service cable came in from one direction and all the branches headed in the other, so sliding the panel a few inches would have been a PITA requiring splicing almost every branch. All four service cables came through a hole in a thick brick wall that had been slugged full of concrete - replacing the bad one would have been a BIG project. Hammering out the concrete probably would have trashed all four service cables in the process.

Sometimes splicing the service cable turns a multi-hour "project" into just a few minute annoyance. In this case, the unit was occupied by a handicapped person, so getting it back online ASAP was important.

Its not something I advocate as normal procedure for all situations, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do...
 
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I have spliced neutrals before but I use a insulated crimp that has the anti-oxident in it and I give the new neutral a good tug to make sure it wont come loose. These are the same crimps that our POCO uses to connect a drop to the SErvice entrance cables at the weather head.
 
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