PAUL BAKER
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Why Does The Code Require A Solid As Opposed To Stranded Grounding Conductor?
Swimming Pool Grounding
- Thread starter PAUL BAKER
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
Probably to avoid corrosion due to capillary action.
But that's just a guess on my part.
But that's just a guess on my part.
petersonra
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PAUL BAKER said:
Being the cynic that I am, I suspect that the people that make solid wire got to the code panel ahead of the people that make stranded wire.
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
Aren't those people one and the same? 
stickboy1375
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Yep... so must be that solid costs more than stranded... :grin:
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Service Manager
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