Recent content by magic_garage

My question has two parts to it. Just as my subject line reads, about heat and moisture inside of an outdoor NEMA enclosure. Specifically, this is for a stainless steel type 4X enclosure housing low voltage CCTV equipment. I'm helping maintain a school cctv system around the school. How hot...

Wow, very interesting but I see how it works now. Really appreciate the info everyone.

My friend who's a home owner is getting close to the end of his home being renovated which included a lot electrical work. When he asked who the licensed electrican was, and when he was coming to inspect the work (licensed person never came to the job site), he was told the licensed person is...

Thanks everyone. What was inconclusive to me was the NEC mentioned the conductors not allowed to be in open air and I didn't quite know what to consider the air space in a Type 1 - 12 enclosure to be. Not sure if I need another thread for this, but what type of enclosure would NOT be allowed...

I meant THHN/THWN.

Thanks, this is the scenario.

Hi: I was helping out a friend with some various things at a local pre-school and I noticed the school had an outdoor enclosure installed to house some network equipment mounted outside of a building. In the enclosure, I noticed a 120VAC receptacle in a weatherproof outlet box mounted to the...

Looks like I'll be joining the frequent cleaning and mold club since it's pretty humid here. Not sure if we're more humid than FL but I would think definetely pretty close. Thanks for the feedback all. This gives me a better expectations.

I have a Eaton non-fusible disco and it has a 1/2 & 3/4" concentric KO on the sides. They're below the wire connections inside the dicso. Ok, so after evaluating the responses, I think I went down the wrong road to begin with. It wasn't a good post for me to push the bell box idea. I should...

I want to stay as close to the disconnect as possible due to the wall space I'm working with so I excluded bottom entry.

As always, appreciate the help....all tips noted! Regarding the bell box side KO's, if you use a ******, I'm still not clear on what locknuts are needed, inside/outside/both/none. This is for my own knowledge regardless if I use the ****** or not. All the discussions I've read about *******...

I want to connect this single gang bell box to a non-fusible ac disconnect switch. I want to use the side KO of the bell box shown to the side KO of the disco with a ****** or rigid coupler as the path. My question is, if using a ******, do I still have to have a locknut on both sides of the...

Sorry I was MIA. Appreciate the info. I recently heard from a friend that their AC CTR doing maintenance gave them some "pro tips like leaving the fan running or turning on the heat before shutting down". We'll see if that's a bunch of you know what here too. Another friend told me that...

Is it normal or not uncommon to get mold in the indoor units with mini split air conditioners? Let's say you never do the spray and rinse maintenance but just cleaning the screen filter once every few months.

That post was very helpful...thanks.