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2 romexes per clamp doesn't fit my style.

Well, you oughta come down here where nearly every residential installer crams all the homeruns into one 3" PVC MA. I don't have a problem with this use of clamps.

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Another question: under what circumstances would a panel be wired before the service conductors are installed?

I remember being told when I was a first-year apprentice that you should always do it this way, because service or feeder conductors are more likely to burn up than branch circuit conductors. When they burn up, it makes it easier to replace them. I don't buy this argument now, but sometimes there are circumstances where you do whatever work you can do at the moment. Yeah, normally you'd do the service or feeder first, but sometimes...

[This message has been edited by yaktx (edited 11-11-2005).]

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