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Posted by John Grabowski on June 27, 2006, 5:48 pm
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> Not had any experience with this stuff myself, but I'm pretty well
> versed in "normal" wiring.
> Anyway, a previous owner wired a ceiling fan with Wiremold (looks like
> the small size) housing large gauge zip cord; at either end the
> Wiremold just stops, and he left like 6 inches of zip cord going into
> the fan baseplate, and another foot of zip cord attached to a plug
> going into a wall outlet. (PS this is the now-remote-controlled fan
> I've been babbling about for a week).
> Obviously, this offends my sensibilities, and I want to finish off the
> job. I see from the Wiremold site that I can get a starter box that
> sits on the outlet box with the outlet on top of it and can start the
> wiremold run (with some extra raceway), and I assume I'll figure out
> how to do the fand end, but
Wiremold is pretty easy to work with. You usually can get by with a
screwdriver and a hacksaw. I don't know if they make a fan rated Wiremold
box. If not you would need to use some long wood screws on the fan bracket
to go through the wiremold box into a solid wood beam. An electrical supply
house would have a larger selection of Wiremold products and a catalog to
peruse.
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> 1) is the wiremold OK for grounding, like conduit is, or do I need to
> run a ground wire as well?
Wiremold metal raceway is an approved grounding conductor, but I usually
pull a separate grounding conductor.
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> 2) if I don't need to run a ground wire, do I need to replace the zip
> cord with "real" wire? there's about 30 feet of it.
Yes. #14 THHN is a good replacement. You can get solid or stranded with
stranded costing more, but is easier to work with. Home Depot sells it by
the foot.
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> Previous Owner was nice enough to carefully ground the fan to its
> baseplate, which is not grounded to anything.....
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> versed in "normal" wiring.
> Anyway, a previous owner wired a ceiling fan with Wiremold (looks like
> the small size) housing large gauge zip cord; at either end the
> Wiremold just stops, and he left like 6 inches of zip cord going into
> the fan baseplate, and another foot of zip cord attached to a plug
> going into a wall outlet. (PS this is the now-remote-controlled fan
> I've been babbling about for a week).
> Obviously, this offends my sensibilities, and I want to finish off the
> job. I see from the Wiremold site that I can get a starter box that
> sits on the outlet box with the outlet on top of it and can start the
> wiremold run (with some extra raceway), and I assume I'll figure out
> how to do the fand end, but