Already plan on running an EGC. What would be the future accessibility issues? Worst comes to worst, the drywall can be opened again.You'll need an equipment ground wire. You may need future accessibility, too
It seems to me it wouldn't be prohibited as long as the cumulative bends don't exceed 360 deg, but I'd like to get confirmation.
300.15(F) Fitting. A fitting identified for the use shall be permitted in lieu of a box or conduit body where conductors are not spliced or terminated within the fitting. The fitting shall be accessible after installation.
So how are conduit connectors able to be used to terminate a raceway at a load center that is recessed in the wall? Those fittings are not accessible.
300.15 Boxes, Conduit Bodies, or Fittings ?Where Required.
A box shall be installed at each outlet and switch
point for concealed knob-and-tube wiring.
Fittings and connectors shall be used only with the specific
wiring methods for which they are designed and listed.
Where the wiring method is conduit, tubing, Type AC
cable, Type MC cable, Type MI cable, nonmetallic-sheathed
cable, or other cables, a box or conduit body shall be installed
at each conductor splice point, outlet point, switch point, junction
point, termination point, or pull point, unless otherwise
permitted in 300.15(A) through (L).
No box or conduit body is need at that location. It is like a coupling.FWIW, MH says the fitting has to be accessible also, per 300.15(F)
Sheathing? That sounds like MC cable.To refeed that outlet location would it be the same as flex but you would have to strip of enough outer sheathing to react from change over to box. Thanx
No box or conduit body is need at that location. It is like a coupling.
Since the focus went from the cable system to the conductors themselves, it sounds like they changed it so that if the conductors aren't disturbed then a non-accessible fitting is fine since it is not "in lieu" of a box or body.
I'm not positive, but that would be my first take.
The fitting must not be in the wall
300.15(F) Fitting. A fitting identified for the use shall be permitted in lieu of a box or conduit body where conductors are not spliced or terminated within the fitting. The fitting shall be accessible after installation.
I disagree. You're saying the fitting is not 'in lieu' of a box because the conductors aren't "disturbed" (spliced or terminated). That's a direct contradiction to 300.15(F), which says if the conductors aren't spliced or terminated ("disturbed") a fitting may be used 'in lieu' of a box.
300.15(F) only excludes two conditions. The section as a whole has several conditions that require a box or body.NEC said:Where the wiring method is conduit, tubing, Type AC cable, Type MC cable, Type MI cable, nonmetallic sheathed cable, or other cables, a box or conduit body shall be installed at each conductor splice point, outlet point, switch point, junction point, termination point, or pull point, unless otherwise permitted in 300.15(A) through (L).
The original intent of this "transition" was typically to transition from EMT to "AC" or "MC" cable where the outer sheathing is removed and stripped off of the "AC" or "MC" and the exposed conductors extended down the EMT.