Cactus,

Even though I'd had forgotten and overlooked 300.14 when making the list above, when I was working on these, the conductor length was my first gripe.
Very hard to work with and a gross violation of conductor length. Not only the EGC, but the Hots are very short too (where spliced).

Joe and myself were trained to have " 6" of free conductor" outside of the box, which was clarified in the '99 Code to be a little more reasonable. We were folding in darn near a foot per conductor on 3-1/2" deep boxes!!

I'll add 300.14 to the list.

Thanks!

-Virgil


-Virgil
Residential/Commercial Inspector
5 Star Inspections
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