Fixture whips

[Besoeker]

I 'ave nae time to be faffing about with such.

Do you use Unistrut? It's steel channel and useful for mounting stuff inside electrical panels or for fixing panels to walls, girders ....etc.

The spring nut shown on the right inside a section channel is sometimes referred to as a Zebedee
It's from a cartoon character in a long running children's series called The Magic Roundabout.

 

[texie]

Do you use Unistrut? It's steel channel and useful for mounting stuff inside electrical panels or for fixing panels to walls, girders ....etc.

The spring nut shown on the right inside a section channel is sometimes referred to as a Zebedee
It's from a cartoon character in a long running children's series called The Magic Roundabout.

Well, it seems that Unistrut is one thing we have in common. As time goes on, we get more similar. As for nick name "Zebedee", that's a new one on me. We have many nick names for products on this side of the pond but they vary wildly from area to area. There was a tread here a while back about our crazy nick names for products by area/regions.

 

[Strathead]

No, I am only stating that "fixture whip" is not an NEC term and the use of the term only leads to confusion as to what it is or is not.

I try my best to try to use terminology in NEC as much as possible - especially when talking to other electrical trade people since the NEC is kind of the bible of the electrical trade (at least for the under 600 volts portion of the trade).
If you use the terminology of the NEC - the NEC becomes easier to use, and others that use the same NEC also are not as confused by terminology.

Sometimes when talking to the customer that terminology means nothing to them and you need to use terms like wires instead of conductors, or plug instead of cord cap, pipe or tubing instead of raceway.

To me "fixture whip" means any wiring method allowed to be run from a junction box to a "luminaire" typically in a length allowed to be unsecured and/or unsupported.

I see we actually agree on all points. The first sentence was why I started off with the caveat about the term and the code. Have a nice day

 

[kwired]

I see we actually agree on all points. The first sentence was why I started off with the caveat about the term and the code. Have a nice day

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[kwired]

Do you use Unistrut? It's steel channel and useful for mounting stuff inside electrical panels or for fixing panels to walls, girders ....etc.

The spring nut shown on the right inside a section channel is sometimes referred to as a Zebedee
It's from a cartoon character in a long running children's series called The Magic Roundabout.

Never heard them called Zebedee. Most call them twirl nuts around here. Not really sure what the name given by manufacturers is.

 

[ActionDave]

Never heard them called Zebedee. Most call them twirl nuts around here. Not really sure what the name given by manufacturers is.

Never heard them called anything other than spring nuts.

I like Zebedee, very jaunty.

 

[ActionDave]

Educational and appreciated so thank you kindly for that.
Not sure that we Brits have quite the same range of electrical jargon that you guys do.
Zebedee might fox you.

I 'ave nae time to be faffing about with such.

The spring nut shown on the right inside a section channel is sometimes referred to as a Zebedee
It's from a cartoon character in a long running children's series called The Magic Roundabout.

That came around to something I could understand- unistrut, spring nuts.
But the first to bits in the exchange, what was that? Canadian?:huh:

 

[kwired]

Never heard them called Zebedee. Most call them twirl nuts around here. Not really sure what the name given by manufacturers is.

Never heard them called anything other than spring nuts.

I like Zebedee, very jaunty.

Apparently twirl nut is trademarked name of Cooper industries version.

http://www.cooperindustries.com/con...rut_systems/cnh-twirlnutfnnutstudtwirlnut.pdf

 

[infinity]

Funny we don't use the term fixture whip at all, it's a fixture tail.
Typically made of a 6' piece of 3/8" FMC.

 

[ActionDave]

Funny we don't use the term fixture whip at all, it's a fixture tail. ....

You're making that up.:rant:

 

[kwired]

Funny we don't use the term fixture whip at all, it's a fixture tail.
Typically made of a 6' piece of 3/8" FMC.

Yet you seem to know what we are talking about:happyyes: