RichardJ
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- New York, Long Island
Hi, I was wondering if someone could advise the best way to deal with the following kitchen wiring?
Please see picture.
This is in an old apartment wired with flexible metal conduit bonded to metal boxes with conduit bushings. The locknut connections all seem tight with no visible corrosion. There are ground screws in the boxes clamping a short length of bare copper wire to provide grounding conductors for the outlets.
I know metal conduit is not currently code compliant for grounding since it lacks the lower impedance path to ground that a dedicated copper conductor would provide, but there is a path to ground through the metal sheathing of the conduit. This should be grandfathered by code from when the apartment was originally wired, correct?
The 2 gang metal junction box seems cramped for three 8ga to 8ga wire splices. Should this be changed to a 4 gang box to reduce the chance of overheating at the splices?
Should the 8ga neutral wire be re-pulled as a single run from the junction box, through the cooktop box, to the oven box? This would reduce splices on the neutral wire from 2 to 1. Is there any safety benefit to this or can it be kept at 2 splices? Pulling a singe run from the panel for 0 splices would require major demolition.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Please see picture.
This is in an old apartment wired with flexible metal conduit bonded to metal boxes with conduit bushings. The locknut connections all seem tight with no visible corrosion. There are ground screws in the boxes clamping a short length of bare copper wire to provide grounding conductors for the outlets.
I know metal conduit is not currently code compliant for grounding since it lacks the lower impedance path to ground that a dedicated copper conductor would provide, but there is a path to ground through the metal sheathing of the conduit. This should be grandfathered by code from when the apartment was originally wired, correct?
The 2 gang metal junction box seems cramped for three 8ga to 8ga wire splices. Should this be changed to a 4 gang box to reduce the chance of overheating at the splices?
Should the 8ga neutral wire be re-pulled as a single run from the junction box, through the cooktop box, to the oven box? This would reduce splices on the neutral wire from 2 to 1. Is there any safety benefit to this or can it be kept at 2 splices? Pulling a singe run from the panel for 0 splices would require major demolition.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
