Exterior Receptacle Flaps

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Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
hello all, quick question....

When did NEC start requiring vertically opening flaps (as opposed to horizontally opening) on exterior receptacles?
Any help? re: 406.8 (2003)
thanks for any & all wisdom!
Brad
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I don't believe the NEC requires what you are asking. If your box is installed vertically then you should use a vertical cover and if your box is installed horizontally then you need a horizontal cover.

There is no 2003 NEC either 2002 or 2005
 
Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
hello all, quick question....

When did NEC start requiring vertically opening flaps (as opposed to horizontally opening) on exterior receptacles?
Any help? re: 406.8 (2003)
thanks for any & all wisdom!
Brad
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Neither "vertical" nor "horizontal" appears in 406.8 (2005)
 
Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
When did NEC start requiring vertically opening flaps (as opposed to horizontally opening) on exterior receptacles?
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They didn't...

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Available in clear or paintable white, vertical or horizontal.
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See: http://aifittings.com/whnew89a.htm

Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
Any help? re: 406.8 (2003)
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There was never a 2003 NEC ...unless it's a "special edition"....like Iowa's 2007 :)
 
Typo - sorry - 2002
My issue is with vertically installed horizontal receptacles... I see it quite often, it seems to be very common in my area... but I was trying to figure out if there were earlier code requirements that didn't specify if an exterior receptacle's "flaps" had to open one way or another (I understand that the code says that it has to be weather resistant in use or not). Any other input?
Thanks
 
The NEC does not care which style recpt. is installed, nor about the covers orientation - only that a suitable cover is attached.
 
Another thing to think about is the bubble cover's installation instructions. The instructions may require that the cover hinge so that gravity will keep the cover closed when nothing is pluged in. It is pretty hard to have a receptacle cover be weather proof if the cover just stays open.

Chris
 
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Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
My issue is with vertically installed horizontal receptacles... Thanks
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I'm not sure what that is.
I once asked a supply fellow to give me a "keyless pullchain". Is that like a vertical-horizontal receptacle ?
 
stickboy1375 said:
Need to follow the manufactures instructions...
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Now that the issue is clear... I think we can say the following:

1) NEC does not address this specifically other than to say that devices are to used as per manufacturer instructions

2) The manufacturer may or may not specify the obvious (can we imagine a double hung window with instructions stating "to be hung vertically only"?!?)

3) The AHJ may deem that the installation is deficient if rain can enter... which it would in most of the devices around these days (since they have openings for the cords to protrude)
 
Phillips Bldg Consultants said:
hello all, quick question....

When did NEC start requiring vertically opening flaps (as opposed to horizontally opening) on exterior receptacles?
Any help? re: 406.8 (2003)
thanks for any & all wisdom!
Brad
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Covers are required to close verticly so the recptical will be covered when not is use. The box may be mounted horizonilly but the cover must close verticaly because the are no springs on the plastic bubble covers to inshure that they close when not is use. that is why they are made convertible.
 
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