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Posted by Chris Lewis on July 7, 2006, 12:49 pm
> Why is using the AC wire outside wrong? I checked with the local codes
> and they said it was fine. It is a weather proof plasic shield with an
> armor ontop of that along with another plastic cover over the armor. I
> took a piece of it to the place where I got my electrical permit and
> they said it was fine...
AC wire normally doesn't have a plastic shield _over_ the armor. The
outside is bare metal. Which doesn't work very good outdoors if it's
steel.
Here, AC wire with a sheath over the armor is usually called TECK
cable. _That's_ fine outdoors.
> Why do you say that it is wrong? I dont think I understand what you
> mean by a insulated ground.
> The 4x4 2 1/8 box that I do have just doesnt seem to hold everything
> properly. By the time I butt join the cables the wire is extremly hard
> to bend and leave any extra in the box. But then again that just may
> be me being not strong enough to bend the wires, but still I would
> rather have a bigger box and give me more room to bend the wires
> specially after I butt join them and put the shrink sleave on the butt
> ends.
An electrician wouldn't ordinarily have problems with 3x #6 splices
in a 4x4x2 j-box. You might want to use a utility box. These
are usually simple rectangular boxes meant to be surface mounted
with knockouts for cable clamps. Unlike j-boxes which have integral
cable clamps, cover ears etc.
We have one somewhere around 4x4x6" holding a splice between 3 #4 copper
and 3 #3 Al (100A feeder to a garage) plus the ground.
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.
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