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Pigtail
· noun · construction
A short jumper wire used to connect a device to a circuit without breaking the run.
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A short length of wire spliced into a wire-nutted bundle, with its free end landing on a device terminal. Lets you join two or more circuit conductors together and feed a single device off them — instead of looping the circuit through the device itself (where a bad receptacle would break everything downstream). Code-required on multi-wire branch circuits.
“Pigtail the hots in the box so I can swap the outlet later without killing power to the rest of the run.”
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Verb: to make that connection. 'I pigtailed the grounds together.'
“Pigtail all four grounds with a green wire nut and land one tail on the receptacle screw.”
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A short factory-attached lead coming out of a sealed device — a light fixture, a motor, a sensor — that you splice your supply into.
“The fixture's pigtails are only 6 inches, leave enough slack in the box to work with.”
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Pigtail In A Sentence
Pigtail the hots in the box so I can swap the outlet later without killing power to the rest of the run.
Pigtail all four grounds with a green wire nut and land one tail on the receptacle screw.
The fixture's pigtails are only 6 inches, leave enough slack in the box to work with.
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