My opinion is that according to 240.5(B)(2) , if you want to use the appropriate fixture wire you can make your own whip and use #18 following the guidelines in Art 402.
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My opinion is that according to 240.5(B)(2) , if you want to use the appropriate fixture wire you can make your own whip and use #18 following the guidelines in Art 402.
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If you supply more than one fixture the conductors are not fixture taps...they are branch circuit conductors and you cannot use the reduced size for a branch circuit conductor.
Again, these would be branch circuit conductors and not fixture taps.
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You can.
Exactly. But of course we are talking about "fixture wire" Art. 402 here, not "conductors for general wiring" Art. 310 (although one (not me :roll
might interpret THW as being described in the Application Provisions as being suitable for use in electrical discharge lighting equipment, but it would still be limited to #14 or larger).stew
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well at least i posted a thread that got a lot of comments. i had forgotten the requirements for fixtures that allowed smaller wire. thanks to don for reminding me and also for the responder that suggested a factory made whip. When I lay out fixtures I don chain them I feed each individually 2 from a j box located between them and drop the whips directle
y to the fixtures.
y to the fixtures.
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You are not allowed to daisy chain through fixtures with 16 ga. conductors. That doesn't mean someone isn't dumb enough to do it.
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See Table 402.5
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