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Final connections in service panel.

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#1 ·
I have a question regarding touring if wires and connections inside service panel.
If the ground and neutral bus bars are on the sides of the box and you have that small amount of space between panel and busbar, is it allowable to make your connections on that side of the busbar, which would make a cleaner box but I'm sure would be fun making connections.
 
#12 ·
I have done it in an old panel when there were just too many neutral wires in a spaghetti heap to slip the new ground or neutral neatly into place. Especially a bare ground; I don't want that "floating" above a mess of wires where it could accidently move and touch a hot location. Or rearranging a panel where maybe someone double tapped and did something else that makes me want to move things around. It may be easy to take the neutral or ground out of the bus bar, but difficult to put in into the new spot (to be honest, I would rarely feel it necessary to move the neutral or ground if I were just dealing with a double tap ...unless for some reason it had to go to the other side of the panel and i had to move the whole wire).
 
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