how to enclose splices for cove light?

[scott_b]

What is the best way to bring power to a very shallow cove with an LED rope light in it? Any junction box would be visible since the cove is detailed as just a 4" crown molding. I have seen this done without a junction box in the past and the splices were just loose in the cove, but there must be a proper way since this is becoming such a popular lighting technique.
Thanks

 

[masterinbama]

Shallow handy box.

 

[iwire]

What is the best way to bring power to a very shallow cove with an LED rope light in it? Any junction box would be visible since the cove is detailed as just a 4" crown molding. I have seen this done without a junction box in the past and the splices were just loose in the cove, but there must be a proper way since this is becoming such a popular lighting technique.
Thanks

If it is low voltage LED there is nothing wrong with open splices.

 

[scott_b]

I would prefer not to use a low voltage rope light because then I would have to find a hidden but accessible location for the transformer or low voltage power supply, but that option is definitely worth considering.

The existing detail for the crown molding creating a small cove doesn't work well with a handy box unless the box is mounted high enough to be partly exposed over the crown, and that is what I am trying to avoid. I think my issue here is that the cove should have been designed to be larger so that an outlet or a power supply could be hidden up there.

I guess I was hoping for something like the super small junction box that comes with some track lights.

Thanks for the help

 

[masterinbama]

They make a small handy box with ears. Make your splice, install the cover and then mount the box.

 

[scott_b]

Thanks, that is a good suggestion. Its not what I was expecting, but it should work!

 

[kwired]

If it is low voltage LED there is nothing wrong with open splices.

Maybe.

See 411.4. If extended through walls, floors, ceilings it must either be installed using chapter 3 wiring methods or installed in accordance with 725.130 if it has a class 2 power source. For the low volt LED it very well may depend on which side of the driver you are making the splices on.

 

[iwire]

See 411.4. If extended through walls, floors, ceilings it must either be installed using chapter 3 wiring methods or installed in accordance with 725.130 if it has a class 2 power source.

That is for the part in the walls, not outside the walls.

 

[kwired]

That is for the part in the walls, not outside the walls.

But you can not splice in the walls either, unless the splice is accessible.

I will save someone else the trouble -

here we go again