Entering a CT cabinet....and continuing conduit....

[JacksonburgFarmer]

The project I am currently working on (the same one I posted my T&M ethics question about) has me thinking about how I am installing my work....

The work is on 10 unit apartment buildings. The phone co. is having a fiber contractor install fiber optic cable to the buildings/units. My job is to supply a 20amp duplex receptacle in the fiber contractors cabinet. The cabinet is a small CT cabinet. I install a 2 pole 70 amp outdoor panel, with one 1pole 20amp breaker. I tap the house power feeder and supply this disconnect. From the disconnect to the receptacle in the CT cabinet. Once I reach the cabinet is where my concern is....I enter the CT cabinet with a meyers hub, and put a coupling after the locknut on the hub. I thread a greenfield flex connector into the coupling and flex about 3" into my 4 square box......this works well and looks pretty good....Is it LEGAL????
I have a feeling no....but what else do you do?????
There are no inspections on this work, something about it is "maintenance work", but upcoming projects will....I have alot of this work coming in the near future......

 

[Cow]

You can't simply run the wires bare into the 4 sq box with just a snap-in bushing? This is assuming you keep the box right next to the myers hub so you don't have to chase your 120v through all their LV wiring.

 

[JacksonburgFarmer]

I guess I could....I just dont like the look of having loose wires in a enclosure like that.....I guess that would be legal, just trying to make a nicer looking job.....and it is T&M....so.....cost dosent concern me to much.....

 

[Cow]

Different strokes I guess...

Every time I open a control cabinet, that's all I see, is bare wires ziptied together ran across stickybacks to keep them in place. I just ran power to a half dozen or so radio towers for a farm out here. Pvc out of the ground into the bottom of the enclosure, mount a grd bar for them and bare wires right into a handybox with a duplex for their equipment. Worked well, I thought it looked nice myself. T&M too...:wink:

 

[wawireguy]

Could just bring your raceway up into the cabinent right into your box. Put some caulk around where it penetrates the box.

 

[LarryFine]

Once I reach the cabinet is where my concern is....I enter the CT cabinet with a meyers hub, and put a coupling after the locknut on the hub. I thread a greenfield flex connector into the coupling and flex about 3" into my 4 square box......

Like mentiond in obe way or another above, how about putting the Meyers hub's locknut itself inside the receptacle box. You could mount the box so the receptacle faces down, if space permits. Maybe use a deep handybox if depth is an issue.

 

[JacksonburgFarmer]

If it is a control cabinet, w/ starters, contactors, relays and such, it is conduit to enclosure, and zipties from there.....

This is just fiber optic....and I like to conceal the wire if I can in this type of setup....

 

[LarryFine]

....and I like to conceal the wire if I can in this type of setup....

Would my suggestion not work?

 

[JacksonburgFarmer]

Larry, are you saying to "sandwich" the CT cabinet and 4 square between meyers hub and locknut????That would work, never thought of it that way....

 

[celtic]

T&M right?

Go big.

This is a Myers Bulkhead Fitting....both ends are female.
$20/per @ 3/4"

 

[LarryFine]

Larry, are you saying to "sandwich" the CT cabinet and 4 square between meyers hub and locknut????

Exactamundo. Basically, use the hub as a chase nipple.