Splicing panel feeders

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By what means can I splice my panel feeders, coming from switch gear to the line side of my panel main, legally? What method of splicing is acceptable?
 
There are a few variables. Could you provide some more information? What size feeders are we talking about?
 
Splicing panel feeders

I'm writing this for my husband, he is at work right now and needs feedback on this question he posted last night as soon as possible. What legal method of splicing is acceptable coming from switch gear to the line side of a 200Amp 240 Volt panel ??

Thanks!!
 
The splice would have to be a junction box and done using listed methods, IE split bolts, compression or setscrew connectors.
It can be done in the panel if it doesn't occupy more than 40% of the cross sectional area for the splice and 70% for the conductors. If I was splicing in the panel I would use compression splices and heat shrink insulation.
 
I really do not understand the question. Are you saying that there is an existing feeder from a switchboard to a panel, and that feeder presently is connected to the main breaker in the panel, and now you want to connect an additional conductor to that feeder at a location upstream of the panel?s main breaker? If so, why? What load(s) will the new wire serve? Will the new wire be the same size as the existing feeder? Can the breaker on the switchboard handle the additional load that you will be adding?

Or is this a simpler issue? Are you saying, for example, that you have to move the panel, and that the move will put it beyond the reach of the existing feeder, and that you don?t want to run an entirely new feeder, but instead want to put in a short extension to the existing feeder by splicing an extra length of the same type of conductor?
 
charlie b said:
I really do not understand the question. Are you saying that there is an existing feeder from a switchboard to a panel, and that feeder presently is connected to the main breaker in the panel, and now you want to connect an additional conductor to that feeder at a location upstream of the panel?s main breaker? If so, why? What load(s) will the new wire serve? Will the new wire be the same size as the existing feeder? Can the breaker on the switchboard handle the additional load that you will be adding?

Or is this a simpler issue? Are you saying, for example, that you have to move the panel, and that the move will put it beyond the reach of the existing feeder, and that you don?t want to run an entirely new feeder, but instead want to put in a short extension to the existing feeder by splicing an extra length of the same type of conductor?
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Also what is the type of run "under ground, overhead, inside conduit,in a pull can,etc etc.....
 
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