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How much wire is required at an outlet box? Today I’ll show you in this short video what the NEC requires for wire at an outlet box. How much from inside the box, how much outside the box and how much wire sheath must extend inside the box.
Please note that an outlet as defined by NEC is a point on the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment. So not only at a receptacle which is commonly know as an “outlet”.
Date: July 26, 2022
Thank you for a simple answer to a simple question I had. Clear and to the point
Thank you!
I always leave a foot or so at every junction, then just push back what I don't need for future rewiring meaning I have about 2 feet of lean way from end to end.
Wondering if you used the yamaha services manual? I need to replace my second gear
How big should the service loops above the box be?
Thanks so much Very Precise Content
May God Bless You
six inches. three in the box three out with quarter inch of romex showing.
Super. I use to cheat by using the screw connectors on switch and receptacle replacements where space was minimal and the wire was already short to the terminals. I even bought outlets that were equipped with two ground screw terminals, two hot screw terminals, and two neutral screw terminals, so that no wire nut was needed on 2×14/2g or 2×12/2g standard wired (Power in/out to the next outlet) receptacle boxes. Now, I just pigtail everything, because that is what the inspectors want, but I still have the skills to install a single hot, neutral, or ground wire to as many as six switches, outlets, or indicator lights, or any combo of them, in the same box without using a wire nut/Wago/Ideal connector on the hot and smaller and fewer or no wire nuts on neutral and ground lines, if I am lucky, but almost from the first year, I pigtailed the grounds and neutrals anyway, because it was easier, especially later on during final, when the wires ran to only one switch or outlet, instead of them all. 💙 T.E.N.
nah gang 6-8 inches outside the box
Wow. That was a lot of great information in 57 seconds.