DBoone
Senior Member
- Location
- Mississippi
- Occupation
- General Contractor
How often do you find lights that do not have a box behind them. Just a bracket fastened to the wall and the splices are hidden by the light canopy?
How often do you find lights that do not have a box behind them. Just a bracket fastened to the wall and the splices are hidden by the light canopy?
If they used industrial raised covers that qualify as a bonding method then the devices are ok . if the emt started at the panel that was grounded then it's ok. Check the plug ground to a ground you are sure of and see if it is.My boss did it on a lot of exterior lights and vanity lights. Drove me nuts trying to fit everything behind a light with no box to splice in... And we were using 12-2 with red wire nuts.
Then we started subbing the electrical on the last couple of jobs and I noticed those guys used no boxes got exterior lights... Wall mounted, flood lights... And I'm sure the vanity lights are the same.
They ran emt in the basement. No boxes grounded, no switches grounded. :slaphead:
I didn't know if this was small town "that's how I was taught, it'll be alright" or if a lot of this goes on all over the country.
How often do you find lights that do not have a box behind them. Just a bracket fastened to the wall and the splices are hidden by the light canopy?
I see a restaurant being built out in my town and they drilled holes in the brick and stuck out mc cables for the outside wall fixtures.
I will bet there won't be boxes behind these fixtures.
I see a restaurant being built out in my town and they drilled holes in the brick and stuck out mc cables for the outside wall fixtures.
I will bet there won't be boxes behind these fixtures.
Without a picture I can't say that what you have described is a bad install. And when you say "no grounding from the panel" but then go on to say "It would all be electrically connected" I don't know what to believe.The covers are raised. The emt is just on the walls. So for instance, NM cable leaves the panel up thru emt, emt stops at the top of the block wall, nm continues thru ceiling and then down thru emt to a box.
Individual conductors pulled from box to box along the wall.
So no grounding from the panel. The receptacles are grounded, would that ground the rest of the emt? It would all be electrically connected but was sure about the legality and if it would guarantee low impedance thru all of the connections.
The covers are raised. The emt is just on the walls. So for instance, NM cable leaves the panel up thru emt, emt stops at the top of the block wall, nm continues thru ceiling and then down thru emt to a box.
Individual conductors pulled from box to box along the wall.
So no grounding from the panel. The receptacles are grounded, would that ground the rest of the emt? It would all be electrically connected but was sure about the legality and if it would guarantee low impedance thru all of the connections.