And SE cable is run in conduit?
Edit: @rmeier2 do you want to opine on this?..certainly okay if you don’t.
For what? We were talking connectors, and conduit or not, not cable ID…I agree that it is not NM but SE cable.
You’re doing the same thing that you complain about Nick doing. LOL!
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SE cable is NOT run in conduit. PERIOD.
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Those are individual cables NOT jacketed SE cable! NM cable is never run inside a conduit.
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Yeah, that looks just like what the OP posted:
“WHERE SUBJECT TO PHYSICAL DAMAGE…”
Good Job Nicky Jr.!
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It could be bonded at the meter enclosure as well. Thats the way it is around my area 99% of the time.
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I rarely see SE cable or conductors not in conduit in my area.
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Yeah, we all know you’re used to making decisions with nothing more than one inch to work with, but some of us are blessed with a whole lot MORE material to work with!!
What, you have a little friend in your pocket…or, who’s “We all”?
And Ad Hominem posturing doesn’t work well to further your point. 
We’ve already established that the OPs cable is a multi conductor (jacketed) cable (SER or SEU). Which you would not use if it needed a metal conduit. You would use individual SE cables. Nothing you posted says anything about pulling a multi-conductor SER or SEU cable through a metal conduit (it is A. not practical and B more expensive).
And C. Done all the time.
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Show us. SER or SEU cable in a conduit.
SE cable does get installed in raceways when subject to physical damage because it’s required by the NEC. There is a code issue however when the raceway contains a conduit body like in Ryan’s photo (and below). The issue is bending radius. The NEC has a minimum bending radius of 5X the diameter of the cable {338.24}. For flat cables (like SEU) that diameter is measured in the widest dimension as if the cable were round. For example in a cable that is 1.5" wide the minimum bending radius would be 7.5".
In a standard LB fitting is it usually impossible to maintain the 5X bending radius in the conduit body unless the raceway or conduit body are oversized. If SE cable is installed in a raceway it is easier to comply with the minimum bending radius by using an elbow in lieu of a conduit body.
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Thanks, Rob!..
Physical damage and the bending radius issues…
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NO! You don’t get to try and change your sarcastic BS attack into a WIN for yourself!
Suck-it-up and admit your loss!!
You can’t be that dense…can you? LOL!
You realize the anyone can read this thread all the wy through, Right?
I dislike the NEC’s stance of “when subject to physical damage.” I know it would be hard for them to describe every case where protection would or would not be needed though.
I occasionally come across an exposed cable that is somewhat tattered from being exposed to the weather and is at a height where a child swinging something like a stick or bat could hit it pretty easily. Not to mention something flying out of the lawnmower or something like that. Is it overkill to call these out for protection?
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IMO, the NEC gave you a “blank check” to call it out for ANY reason that you deem to be a potential ‘physical damage’ hazard. That is a good thing, because like you, I see damaged, unprotected, cables all the time. I call it out often, as usualy the cable needs replacing anyway. Two birds, one stone. Someone should have done it properly the first time!
In Larry’s misguided situation, he can ONLY see two inches inside the panel box. That’s it!
He has ZERO CLUE what the rest of the SE cable sitaution is. That’s on him, and is his problem.