my humble vote goes for the original post at the top where he says it is a devisive issue..... i'm not convinced by any of the code sections here that you can't pigtail them in the panel, but i've never seen anyone that does it... the commentary reasonoing sounds right, 1 fault at a time, so i guess if you have two-8awg's two-10awg's and two-12awg's in the right splicing device, it should be ok to use the 8awg[40a] as the pigtail, right? i wouldn't bet any money against this in a lawsuit, and if an inspector turned it down, he'd be doin' a lot of tap dancing, imho [Linked Image]