Timeline for Can I connect a portable generator to a subpanel to backfeed my house?
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| Jan 22, 2018 at 18:56 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @snowman my service panels are typically surrounded by a constellation of 4x4" junction boxes, where I have made such splices. It does not help that a thief stole all the breakers out of all the panels in a factory building, cutting the wires at the edge of the panel. But after fixing that, I've found just how useful that strategy is for all sorts of things, like splicing to subpanels, adding GFCI deadfaces instead of expensive GFCI breakers, etc. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 11:41 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @Snowman -- you can also use UL-listed distribution blocks to tidy things up... | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | user4302 | I have been told by people more knowledgeable than I am that splicing in the main panel (or even sub panels) can make them messy and difficult to follow where circuits are going, but is not against code unless there are too many wires (i.e. box fill). In other words, it is a good idea to make splices elsewhere, but generally not required. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 12:45 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | No, splicing circuits in a panelboard cabinet does not violate the NEC until your panelboard gutter becomes more than 75% full (re-read 312.8 please). | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 10:20 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 22, 2017 at 10:02 | history | answered | user66689 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |