Is Conduit Body allowed for burial

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FionaZuppa

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does the 2011 NEC code allow burial of a conduit body like this? its not being used as a junction box, just need a spot to pull wire through one port twice, etc.
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xformer said:
I would check 110.3B and also 314.29
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110.3B - install into service per label instructions
314.29 - junction box, but mentions pull and conduit bodies.....

i am not using the item as a junction box. i need to pull 12awg in on one side, and 14awg on the other side, then all 6 conductors leave the 3rd port up to a junction box that is exposed on a outside wall. why does 314.29 lump "junction" boxes in with the others? why would i need to access a conduit body if no wires are tied there?

so i am bound to 110.3B ?? if OEM says "for direct burial" then it's ok ?

i mean, i could use a Y like this to avoid the body, but just wondering because i am not connecting wires in the body itself, etc........
yconn.jpg
 
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FionaZuppa said:
does the 2011 NEC code allow burial of a conduit body like this? its not being used as a junction box, just need a spot to pull wire through one port twice, etc.
coduit_body.jpg
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i would think not.....in the future you would not be able to modify or fix any wiring
 
FionaZuppa said:
110.3B - install into service per label instructions
314.29 - junction box, but mentions pull and conduit bodies.....

i am not using the item as a junction box. i need to pull 12awg in on one side, and 14awg on the other side, then all 6 conductors leave the 3rd port up to a junction box that is exposed on a outside wall. why does 314.29 lump "junction" boxes in with the others? why would i need to access a conduit body if no wires are tied there?

so i am bound to 110.3B ?? if OEM says "for direct burial" then it's ok ?

i mean, i could use a Y like this to avoid the body, but just wondering because i am not connecting wires in the body itself, etc........
yconn.jpg
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Thank you for showing me that part. I never knew it existed.:thumbsup:
 
An inaccessible conduit body makes it virtually impossible to pull new wires through the pipe run in the future. If I were a future electrician trying to figure out what my fish tape keeps running into, I'd be very irate. It's bad engineering and bad planning, regardless of what code says.
 
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