Clarification 404.3 Enclosure (Switch)

[DPW]

(B) Used as a Raceway. Enclosures shall not be used as junction boxes, auxiliary gutters, or raceways for conductors feeding through or tapping off to other switches or overcurrent devices, unless the enclosure complies with 312.8.

Does this mean that if a receptacle (mounted in a separate box & circuit) was located directly below the switch (mounted in a separate box & circuit) one could not pass the receptacle conductors through the switch enclosure?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

Not at all. Read 312.8 and make sure you read the entire sentence

312.8 Enclosures for Switches or Overcurrent Devices.
Enclosures for switches or overcurrent devices shall not be used as junction boxes, auxiliary gutters, or raceways for conductors feeding through or tapping off to other switches or overcurrent devices, unless adequate space for this purpose is provided. The conductors shall not fill the wiring space at any cross section to more than 40 percent of the cross-sectional area of the space, and the conductors, splices, and taps shall not fill the wiring space at any cross section to more than 75 percent of the cross-sectional area of that space.

 

[augie47]

In most cases your conductors would not result is a fill above that required by 312.8 so it would be permissible.

(sorry Dennis, stepped on you)