Cord and Plug in a Raceway

[Sparky1981]

I have a table top that the interior designer wants to install these devices



She wants the cords hidden so the the table will have a center channel to run this to the leg, then run inside the leg down to the floor box duplex.

My interpretation of the NEC 400.12(6) prohibits a cord and plug to be run in a raceway. Is there an exception I am missing?

 

[infinity]

A chase or channel is not a raceway unless it is listed and installed as one.

 

[hbiss]

I have a table top that the interior designer wants to install these devices

I think it would depend on whether the table is movable or fixed in place.

-Hal

 

[Sparky1981]

Table is movable I suppose as it is not fastened to the ground. The "not a raceway" argument is interesting. The AHJ is in Jackson Wyoming and is pretty by the book. I am not sure he would but off on saying "its no listed as a raceway so its not one". But mayyyyybe.

 

[hbiss]

Table is movable I suppose as it is not fastened to the ground.

The NEC doesn't apply to furniture. If it happens to be there when the inspector is, it's not something he needs to be concerned with any more than a TV cabinet with a power strip inside.

-Hal

 

[jim dungar]

Table is movable I suppose as it is not fastened to the ground. The "not a raceway" argument is interesting. The AHJ is in Jackson Wyoming and is pretty by the book. I am not sure he would but off on saying "its no listed as a raceway so its not one". But mayyyyybe.

A raceway needs to be properly terminated. I am sure the furniture channel simply ends somewhere shy of the floor, so it dies not meet the NEC raceway definition.