Ground Bonding PigTails™
Engineered Products Company (EPCO) introduced the Stranded Grounding PigTail over 30 years ago. Today, EPCO has sold more than 200 million grounding pigtails because our manufacturing expertise, quality and reliability and expedited delivery time.
Our ground bonding products provide a permanent and positive connection for the grounding system to ensure an effective, low-impedance ground-fault current path to safeguard people and property from electrical hazards.
Why
Contractors use EPCO
Ground Bonding
PigTails and
PowerTails®
No other company
manufacturers more
combinations of
Ground Bonding
PigTails and
PowerTails®
Device Wiring
Conductors than
EPCO. Our Solid and
Stranded-Wire Single
and Dual-Gang Ground
Bonding PigTails are
available in 6.5",
8", 10" and 12"
lengths and include
a grounding screw, a
machine-formed and
insulated crimped
Ring Terminal or
Flanged Spade Fork
Terminal.
The
Ring
Terminal
used is a true
grounding ring that
actually
"bites"
into the screw head
and receptacle box
to insure an
excellent "ground"
connection.
The factory made insulation crimp on the Ring Terminal and Flanged Fork Spade Terminal puts less stress on the conductor’s strands to ensure an excellent ground and power connection because the strands will not break or separate when these conductors are is pushed into the junction box.- The Flanged Fork Spade Terminal has "angled" flanges on the end of the "fork" that will stay in place to help the installer connect the PigTail or PowerTail to the appropriate screw on the receptacle, switch or device.
- Installation speed and reliability!
- Cost effective and efficient.
- Quickly connect receptacles, switches or other devices.
- The perfect products for pre-fabrication work in the shop or on the job site.
- A variety of configurations and lengths that meet a broad range of application requirements.
- Ground Bonding PigTails and PowerTail products are available in re-sealable bags.
- 12 AWG is the standard wire size. 14 AWG Ground Bonding PigTails are available.
- Solid-Wire Ground Bonding PigTails: THHN Building Wire.
- Stranded-Wire Ground Bonding PigTails: THHN Building Wire (19 or 65 strand).
- Ground Bonding PigTails in bulk quantities of 1,000 are available. Contact EPCO Inside Sales for more information.
Self-tapping
GSC - Ground Screw
is used by
Contractors when the
metallic junction
box’s ground screw
hole is not tapped
or is not "cleanly"
tapped.
Tapered Point
GSH - Ground Screw
is a labor savings
screw used by
Contractors. This
ground screw is easy
to start in the
pre-tapped hole.
Ground
Clip
EPCO’s Ground
Clip are
specifically
designed for
termination of the
grounding conductor
and should be used
when a 10-32
grounding hole is
not pre-drilled or
tapped into a
metallic junction
box.
The correct way to install a ground clip is to feed the grounding conductor into the ground clip with the shorter part of the ground clip placed inside the junction box. Then use the flat blade of a screwdriver to force the ground clip onto the junction box to ensure a good electrical connection. See photo.
Since ground clips are forced onto the junction box, EPCO recommends using a "new" ground clip instead of re-using the old ground clip. Ground clips should never be forced onto the round portion of a plaster ring or a poor electrical connection will result.
