Bathroom. An area including a basin with one or more of the following: a toilet, a urinal, a tub, a shower, a bidet, or similar plumbing fixtures.

Battery System. Interconnected battery subsystems consisting of one or more storage batteries and battery chargers, and can include inverters, converters, and associated electrical equipment.

This definition is suitable for use with all types of storage batteries. The system consists of all of the major components that are necessary to supply the desired output. A battery system can contain multiple batteries. Other equipment can include chargers, inverters, converters, and overcurrent protective devices.

Bonded (Bonding). Connected to establish electrical continuity and conductivity. The purpose of bonding is to establish an effective path for fault current that, in turn, facilitates the operation of the overcurrent protective device. This is explained in 250.4(A)(3) and (4) and 250.4(B)(3) and (4). Specific bonding requirements are found in Part V of Article 250 and in other sections of the Code as referenced in 250.3.

Bonding Conductor or Jumper . A reliable conductor to ensure the required electrical conductivity between metal parts required to be electrically connected. Both concentric- and eccentric-type knockouts can impair the electrical conductivity between metal parts and may actually introduce unnecessary impedance into the grounding path. Installing bonding jumper(s) is one method often used between metal raceways and metal parts to ensure electrical conductivity. Bonding jumpers may be found at service equipment [250.92(B)], bonding for over 250 volts (250.97), and expansion fittings in metal raceways (250.98). Exhibit 100.3 shows the difference between concentric- and eccentric-type knockouts. Exhibit 100.3 also illustrates one method of applying bonding jumpers at these types of knockouts.

Exhibit 100.3 Bonding jumpers installed around concentric or eccentric knockouts.

Bonding Jumper, Equipment . The connection between two or more portions of the equipment grounding conductor. The use of equipment bonding jumpers ensures that the electrical continuity of an effective ground-fault current path is not compromised by an interruption in mechanical continuity, as is the case with metal conduits entering an open-bottom switchboard, or an interruption of electrical continuity resulting from loosely joined metal raceways, as is inherent to an expansion fitting intended to allow for movement in a metal conduit system. Equipment bonding jumpers are used to connect the grounding terminal of a receptacle to a metal box that in turn is grounded via an equipment grounding conductor in the form of a metal raceway system.

Bonding Jumper, Main . The connection between the grounded circuit conductor and the equipment grounding conductor at the service. Exhibit 100.5 shows a main bonding jumper used to provide the connection between the grounded service conductor and the equipment grounding conductor at the service. Bonding jumpers may be located throughout the electrical system, but a main bonding jumper is located only at the service. Main bonding jumper requirements are found in 250.28.

Exhibit 100.5 A main bonding jumper installed at the service between the grounded service conductor and the equipment grounding conductor .

Bonding Jumper System . The connection between the the grounded circuit conductor and the supply-side bonding jumper, or the equipment grounding conductor, or both, at a separately derived system.

Branch Circuit . The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device protecting the circuit and the outlet(s).

Exhibit 100.6 shows the difference between branch circuits and feeders. Conductors between the overcurrent devices in the panelboards and the duplex receptacles are branch-circuit conductors. Conductors between the service equipment or source of separately derived systems and the panelboards are feeders.

Exhibit 100.6 Feeder (circuits) and branch circuits.

Branch Circuit, Appliance. A branch circuit that supplies energy to one or more outlets to which appliances are to be connected and that has no permanently connected luminaires that are not a part of an appliance. Two or more 20-ampere small-appliance branch circuits are required by 210.11(C)(1) for dwelling units. Section 210.52(B)(1) requires that these circuits supply receptacle outlets located in such rooms as the kitchen, pantry, and so on. These small-appliance branch circuits are not permitted to supply other outlets or permanently connected luminaires. (See 210.52 for exact details.)

Branch Circuit, General-Purpose . A branch circuit that supplies two or more receptacles or outlets for lighting and appliances.