Is there code restrictions for reducer bushings?
- Thread starter zappy
- Start date
- Location
- Tennessee NEC:2017
- Occupation
- Semi-Retired Electrician
Are you talking about reducers to change to a different size conduit, or just the fittings?
- Location
- Bremerton, Washington
- Occupation
- Master Electrician
There are regular REs and EP REs. The ep are longer and are listed, I prefer the ep type
To change from different size conduits
Well, we have them outside too.
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
Rigid conduit couplings are not even remotely close to being waterproof. Any fitting listed for use with rigid conduit will be fine in a wet location.
Dsg319
Senior Member
- Location
- West Virginia
- Occupation
- Wv Master “lectrician”
You are correct. You can sink an RE out of sight into a coupling.
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
- Location
- Henrico County, VA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
You can also use reducing couplings.
Never seen one of those.
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
- Location
- Henrico County, VA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
TwoBlocked
Senior Member
- Location
- Bradford County, PA
- Occupation
- Industrial Electrician
These REAs can be real handy, too. This one is a 1/2" male to 3/4" female:
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
The plant I worked at a lot used those to transition from 4" underground to 2" above ground for their fire alarm and communications conduits...in some cases the reducing coupling was below the poured floor in the electrical room
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
- Location
- Henrico County, VA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
This was a job we did running power and GEC up the outside of a ten-story apartment building for a roof-top cellular site. I removed (and sold) the abandoned service wires and used the existing conduits, which saved us from having to bore through two feet of concrete foundation into the basement.
The building owner loved the suggestion when I made it. You can see in this link what had to be done when more service was added onto the service upgrade. They went through the wall at the bottom. My conduits are inside the fire escape and my work (since painted red) brought them out and up.
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Jpflex
Electrician big leagues
- Location
- Victorville
- Occupation
- Electrician commercial and residential
We used these to transfer from underground larger diameter pvc to smaller diameter surface level EMT and it was intriguing the first time I did this while wiring up an inside lab