Using a panel for raceway

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joeyww12000

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Can a panel be used as a raceway? Example would be in a mechanical room on a job I was on there was a trough set 18" high along a 10' wall with all the panels on top of the trough. Depending on where you came to with your homeruns to hit the trough you would have to pull through a panel in the center to get to the correct panel. This eventually ended up with 25-30 circuits passing through a panel they did not belong in.
 
Yes, a panel can be used as a raceway, see the last half of 312.8.

Roger
 
Pictorial example of a panel being compliantly used as a raceway:

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