ishium 80439
Senior Member
I am helping to make a safety board showing a sampling of the things that we have actually found installed in the field. The idea is to re-create them and then to list the various Code violations to help explain to people why the installations are dangerous. One of the items we would like to use is an installation where we found a light switch enclosed in a box made out of wood- just some scrap lumber they must have had laying around. Oddly enough I'm having a tough time finding good NEC references for this.
The closest I've come is 110.3 "Listed or labeled equipment shall be installed..." and 404.3(A) "Switches... shall be ... mounted in an enclosure listed for the intended use...". It seems that I must be missing something if this is the strongest arguement that I can come up with against constructing your own box out of 1x lumber. The only other thing I can think of is 110.8 "Only wiring methods recognized as suitable are included in this Code" which I could interpret as "a wooden box is so far outside of what would be considered correct why are we even discussing it?"
So what am I missing?
Thanks
The closest I've come is 110.3 "Listed or labeled equipment shall be installed..." and 404.3(A) "Switches... shall be ... mounted in an enclosure listed for the intended use...". It seems that I must be missing something if this is the strongest arguement that I can come up with against constructing your own box out of 1x lumber. The only other thing I can think of is 110.8 "Only wiring methods recognized as suitable are included in this Code" which I could interpret as "a wooden box is so far outside of what would be considered correct why are we even discussing it?"
So what am I missing?
Thanks