Can I extend the pigtail if it s not long enough

For safety, and to stay in line with the National Electrical Code, each wire used in a pigtail must be a minimum six inches long. Use your wire stripper to cut back three-quarters-of-an-inch of the insulating PVC. IMHO Eaton is not allowing extending the pigtail, when SPD is built-in to the device, a unique feature of Eaton xFCI's. All instructions for stand alone SPD also specify keeping pigtails as short as possible. Too short?! I almost always cut them off. Splice if you need to or rearrange the breaker. While it's tempting to just snip off a few inches and call it a day, the correct length of a pigtail significantly impacts the safety, reliability, and serviceability of your electrical system. Let's dive deep into the factors that dictate the optimal length. The ideal pigtail length isn't. Pigtail wiring represents a common and often necessary connection technique used within electrical junction boxes and device enclosures. When. If you have an electrical box with wiring that is too short to make electrical connections to outlets, switches or even another junction box, you will need to add 'pigtails' to the wiring in order to lengthen the wiring so you can use it. To run across to the neutral bus, I would have to splice an extension to the the AFCI white pigtail wire, and run the extension over. I know that the general tactic for extending wires is using a J-Box, but it's against code to leave a J-Box in a location that's inaccessible without cutting drywall.