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projectorguru
01-02-2008, 05:29 AM
A friend of mine is finishing his basement, and when the new house was built a year ago, he had a pre-wire for a sub panel down there. Anyway his main panel has 2, 50A breakers, and the wire is bugged off in the basement in a JB. i did not check the wire yet to make sure its #6 or #4 yet, but I was wondering if there is any issues with splicing off the JB and then goin to the new sub panel?
480sparky
01-02-2008, 05:38 AM
As long as the jbox is large enough, the devices you use are listed for the size of wire you have, and the jbox is accessible when you are finished, it's perfectly OK.
frenchie
01-02-2008, 05:53 AM
Really? Here you can't have a junction on the feed to a sub-panel - it has to be a continuous run of wire.
projectorguru
01-02-2008, 06:22 AM
Really? Here you can't have a junction on the feed to a sub-panel - it has to be a continuous run of wire.
That was my point, I thought code was it has to be continuous, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Also they used 2 50 amp breakers which i though was wrong as well
jwelectric
01-02-2008, 08:05 AM
You are right the subpanel can not be feed from both 50 amp breakers.
480sparky
01-02-2008, 10:33 AM
The NEC does not prohibit spicing feeders, so it must be a local amendment.