Connections & Luminares

[mark32]

Perhaps this is a silly question but it's one that comes to mind from time to time. When installing a fixture with a canopy, do you typically tuck the connections up into the box or let them float in the canopy?

 

[infinity]

Either way, depending on the size of the box and how crowded it is. For a pancake box the conductors usually end up in the canopy.

 

[al hildenbrand]

For me, it's real situational. The way the fixture attaches to the box will determine some of it. If I have to hold the fixture while I make the last wirenut connections, then I'm likely to have already folded the other conductors and splices into the box so they are behind the fixture strap. The less I have to fuss with before the fixture is against the ceiling, the better.

 

[LarryFine]

The hardest box to stuff is usually a 1-gang metal box mounted (barely) in an exterior wall with the fixture strap almost blocking the whole box.


Added: Oh, yeah. I try to stuff them into the box, but it depends, as above.