Appliance. Utilization equipment, generally other than industrial, that is normally built in standardized sizes or types and is installed or connected as a unit to perform one or more functions such as clothes washing, air conditioning, food mixing, deep frying, and so forth.
Equipment. A general term including material, fittings, devices, appliances, luminaires (fixtures), apparatus, and the like used as a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
I think "equipment". But Reno mentioned in the chat area that this thing had a load center in it. Which complicates things....
Branch Circuit. The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device protecting the circuit and the outlet(s).
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Branch Circuit, Individual. A branch circuit that supplies only one utilization equipment.
So if the final over-current device is inside the unit, doesn't that make it a "feeder"?
Feeder. All circuit conductors between the service equipment, the source of a separately derived system, or other power supply source and the final branch-circuit overcurrent device.
Which would make it exempt from the exception to 250.32(A)? And then either require a GEC and local electrode, or full size EGC depending on other metalic paths?
