I’m trying to connect some low voltage under cab halogens. The transformers come with 6″ leads for connection to hard wire. I’m assuming these should be connected in a device box but my dilema is one of the transformers is too large to even fit in an octagonal box. Should these be placed in a box or is there some way of doing these connections.
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Edited 7/4/2006 8:59 pm ET by scottbr
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The transformer does not have to be in a box but the 110v connection point does.
The sparkies on my job were using a vinyl sleeve with a cynch style connector at the Jbox.
I was trying to figure a way of hiding the box and transformer in the wall, trying to avoid a jbox mounted under the cab., but that looks like the way I may have to go.
All J box's that have a connector in them must be accessible.
I'm not 100% sure ya can do this but if it was mine I would use a crimp style butt connector & heat shrink over that to make the 110v leads longer to be able to reach a J box that is in the wall.
I have rope lighting under my cabs & wasn't about to have an outlet that was visible through my glass doors .
so I have a cabinet in front of my J box's which is not exactly legal but it works for me.
Is this a new cabinet installation, or are you working with existing cabinets -- where the 110v wire comes out of the wall underneath the cabinets?
If the latter, is the 110v wire long enough so that you could get it up inside the cabinet? If so, you could mount a pancake junction box inside the cabinet (against the back), with the transformer attached next to it, then run your wire back underneath the cabinet to the lights. The junc box and transformer could then be covered with a 1/4" plywood plate to cover it up -- stained and varnished to roughly match the cabinet.
In a new installation, I would route the 110v wire to the top of the cabinet, mount the junc box and transformer there, with the low voltage wire running down the wall behind the cabinet, coming out where it needs to be to hook up with the lights.
If none of this is feasible in your particular situation, then you are stuck with mounting the transformer and the pancake junction box beneath the cabinet.
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