Tray Cable
At the vertical drops, a #3 insulated wire is split bolted onto the #3/0 and run with the tray cable in each separate conduit down to the panel. In the panel: you now have 2x #3 ground wires,
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Illustration 3: Single Conductor Power Tray bonded with EGC continuous ground wire on side, sized per max breaker. The above illustrations represent over 99% of all cable tray installations.
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In addition to providing an electrical connection between the cable tray sections and the EGC, the grounding clamp mechanically anchors the EGC to the cable tray so that under fault current