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In Reply to: Questions for Victor posted by Steve Culton on October 1, 2001 at 06:28:37:
The trouble with working with 10 gauge is its stiffness. It is OK if you have large outlet box, but putting it into the normal small outlet box is very hard. I would recommend using large boxes with a lot of extra space around, if you decide to go with 10. It is NOT just that it will be hard to find someone to do it - think of the support issues. If one day there is some work to be done in that box - getting this outlet out of it, working on it and then putting it back in is going to be a major pain.Also, make sure these boxes are NAILED to the studs HARD, not just hanging on the drywall, like some boxes do. Otherwise, you will break the support trying to do anything to it in the future.
Did I say only use metal boxes? Never use the plastic junk.
Isolated grounds - my concern is not the outlet, but what you are going to do with the ground lead on the outlet. It must go to the breaker panel and be connected THERE to the ground buss, not to some copper spike, not water pipe, not anything else. That is what some folks do to their "isolated grounds" and it is usually a violation of code.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Questions for Victor - Victor Khomenko 06:43:02 10/01/01 (4)
- Re: Questions for Victor - Chase 08:40:36 10/03/01 (0)
- Code violations :-) - preamp 16:31:08 10/01/01 (0)
- Re: Questions for Victor - Steve Culton 07:06:51 10/01/01 (1)
- Re: Questions for Victor - Victor Khomenko 07:15:21 10/01/01 (0)
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