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230.54 Overhead Service Locations
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Service raceways shall be equipped with a service head at the point of connection to service-drop or overhead service conductors. The service head shall be listed for use in wet locations.
Service-entrance cables shall be equipped with a service head. The service head shall be listed for use in wet locations.
Exception: Type SE cable shall be permitted to be formed in a gooseneck and taped with a self-sealing weather-resistant thermoplastic.
Service heads on raceways or service-entrance cables and goosenecks in service-entrance cables shall be located above the point of attachment of the service-drop or overhead service conductors to the building or other structure.
Service-entrance cables shall be held securely in place.
Service heads shall have conductors of different potential brought out through separately bushed openings.
Exception: For jacketed multiconductor service-entrance cable without splice.
Drip loops shall be formed on individual conductors. To prevent the entrance of moisture, service-entrance conductors shall be connected to the service-drop or overhead service conductors either (1) below the level of the service head or (2) below the level of the termination of the service-entrance cable sheath.
Service-entrance and overhead service conductors shall be arranged so that water will not enter service raceway or equipment.
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