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    <p>Hi Dana;</p>
    <p>What code section is he/ she referencing?  Many times, wires are
      left too short to land on a particular breaker or buss, so splices
      in the load center happen even in regular electrical work.  Our
      inspectors here consider a load center the same as any other
      electrical enclosure: subject to wire and splice fill
      requirements.  We've beaten this dead horse subject before, many
      years back. <br>
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    <p>So your inspector would require you to tear into a finished wall
      to install a gutter, just to relocate a breaker in the same panel,
      and extend the circuit wire with a splice?  What if you
      accidentally cut one neutral wire a few inches short; suddenly you
      need the custom plaster crew back out to patch?   I've had MLPs
      installed in walls with very expensive wall finishes. I'm not
      tearing into that wall unless it's the only way.   The majority of
      inspectors are not electricians. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Code citations, please. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Thanks,<br>
    </p>
    <p>Ray Walters<br>
      Remote Solar<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/1/2024 2:44 PM, Dana Orzel via
      RE-wrenches wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Wire
            nuts in a breaker panel are not allowed per my inspector per
            code.  Pull the Romex out of the breaker panel & spllce
            in a wire gutter to extend.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I
            have seen this enforced twice now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">_________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#275317">Dana
            Orzel                </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#275317">GREAT
            SOLAR WORKS!                      <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#275317">C
            – 208.721.7003      E –
            <a href="mailto:dana@solarwork.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="color:#275317;text-decoration:none">dana@solarwork.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#275317">W
            - www. greatsolarworks.com     <a
              href="http://www.solarwork.com/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="color:#275317;text-decoration:none">www.solarwork.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#275317">“Responsible
                Technologies for Responsible People since 1988!”<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
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