Yes it would be. Free standing (meaning you can move it) would require a flexible connection.
You can go 5 ft for securely fastened. I believe there are also some exceptions for threaded rigid conduit.
It's common for those to be interchangeable in the control panel world. Just differentiates from 'wall-mounted'.
That does not make them the same thing. People put too much value on the Word of Google.
Well it's a misnomer then. What we were wondering was if thr thing can be moved after installation without removing any mounting hardware.
I'm not referring to what google says. I'm referring to what the manufacturers call them. These happen to be the first two links after the ads when you search what I said in google. What one manufacturer calls "free standing", another calls "floor mount". I agree it does seem to be contradictory, but not if you are differentiating it from something like wall-mount.
Perhaps they mean free standing because they're not mounted to the wall. But it's all good we've clarified the situation.
I see that Floor Mount and Free Standing are separate categories. I also appears that 'Floor Mount' is a feature. I wish you would have put a working link to this for lazy people like me.
I don't see that it's clarified yet, or there wouldn't be separate categories for Floor Mounted and Free Standing.
I meant we've clarified that his particular device is something that is going to be bolted to the floor and thus not moveable after installation. I don't care to argue the manufacturers choice of words.
