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8 Gauge Electrical Copper Wire Home Depot
Mistake: Box too small
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Too abounding affairs blimp into a box can account alarming overheating, short-circuiting and fire. The National Electrical Cipher specifies minimum box sizes to abate this risk.
Solution: Install a beyond box
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To amount the minimum box admeasurement required, add up the items in the box:
1 - for anniversary hot wire and aloof wire entering the box
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1 - for all the arena affairs combined
1 - for all the cable clamps combined
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2 - for anniversary accessory (switch or outlet?but not ablaze fixtures)
Multiply the absolute by 2.00 for 14-gauge wire and by 2.25 for 12-gauge wire to get the minimum box admeasurement appropriate in cubic inches. Then accept a box with at atomic this abundant volume. Plastic boxes accept the aggregate formed inside, usually on the back. Steel box capacities are listed in the electrical code. Steel boxes won't be labeled, so you'll accept to admeasurement the height, amplitude and abyss of the interior. Then accumulate to acquisition the volume.
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