nissan_crawler
11-29-2008, 09:20 PM
does such a thing exist? I'm looking for a junction box with screw terminals like in a breaker panel.
Long story short, due to where my lights are going in relation to the roofline, it is almost impossible to daisy chain them together. It would be MUCH easier to run a wire from the switch to a junction box, and separate wires to each light. Seeing as how there will be the switch wire + 8 wires for the lights, wire nuts are out. Even the wago wall nuts don't hold that much.
I'm dealing with a hip roof that will be sloped on 3 sides of where my lights are, making it almost impossible to get to 7 of the lights. Even laying face down on the rafters and scooting, you can only get within about 5' of the outside walls, which isn't fun in itself when you're surrounded by blown in fiberglass. Only one of the light fixtures will really be accessible from up above.
I'm aware I could split it in half and run two junction boxes and wiring nuts, but really don't want to go that route.
If I can mount the fixtures, then run the wire from in the garage into the attic, and just feed enough until I can grab it with a 10' pole, I'll be able to wire them. Even fish tape would be hard, as I would have to run the fisht ape and wire at least 10' towards the center before I could join them together and pull the slack out, which would be hard on my own.
Long story short, due to where my lights are going in relation to the roofline, it is almost impossible to daisy chain them together. It would be MUCH easier to run a wire from the switch to a junction box, and separate wires to each light. Seeing as how there will be the switch wire + 8 wires for the lights, wire nuts are out. Even the wago wall nuts don't hold that much.
I'm dealing with a hip roof that will be sloped on 3 sides of where my lights are, making it almost impossible to get to 7 of the lights. Even laying face down on the rafters and scooting, you can only get within about 5' of the outside walls, which isn't fun in itself when you're surrounded by blown in fiberglass. Only one of the light fixtures will really be accessible from up above.
I'm aware I could split it in half and run two junction boxes and wiring nuts, but really don't want to go that route.
If I can mount the fixtures, then run the wire from in the garage into the attic, and just feed enough until I can grab it with a 10' pole, I'll be able to wire them. Even fish tape would be hard, as I would have to run the fisht ape and wire at least 10' towards the center before I could join them together and pull the slack out, which would be hard on my own.