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Tee Stain Relief Fitting for electrical conduit?

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I need to run wires out of the end of an 8 foot fluorescent fixture, 90 degrees both directions. So I need a Tee fitting but can't find any.

Are these available anywhere?
 
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Mustang51js

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Yeah they make them, it's for pipe, can't remember exact name but I wanna say a tl, it's more for Comercial piping.
 
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Yes I know there are tees for water or gas but they won't install to the knockout hole the same way as an electrical conduit fitting will, with a lock ring.
 

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You may need to come out of the light fixture with a short piece of conduit then use a a tee condolet. There may be a code issue to actually tee off of the light fixture. You are talking about using the light fixture as junction box....that doesn't sound up tp code.
 
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You may need to come out of the light fixture with a short piece of conduit then use a a tee condolet. There may be a code issue to actually tee off of the light fixture. You are talking about using the light fixture as junction box....that doesn't sound up tp code.

I have six 8 ft fixtures... 3 rows of 2 so each row is in tandem. The center row is wired from the ceiling where the origina bulb was. To power the other two rows I want to just come off the end of the middle row, so 90 degrees both ways.

is this against code?
 

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If you have surface mount strip fixtures there's no issue with wiring one fixture off another. That's one reason why there are knock-outs on the ends so they can be chained together.
 

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You can jump from light to another with no issues,it's when you come from an outlet and say splice it in the light down to another outlet, that is illegal.
 
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