How can a “new construction ” can light be code compliant? The juction box for the wire connections becomes inacessible when the drywall is installed. I know with the remodel cans the wiring is sort of accesible.
I am sure there is a good (or at least “politically” good) explantion for this. Just seems odd. Every other splice in a house seems to be truely accesible, just not cans.
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All of the new installation type cans I have worked with had the ability to be taken apart from the finished side. If you look at the can from the viewpoint of standing in the room looking into the lamp area, there are some fasteners that can be removed, bent, twisted that will allow the can to be removed from the mounting plate. The junction box has two doors, one of which faces the can. So with a finished installation one can remove the lamp, remove the trim, unfasten the can and push it back into the ceiling and then remove the door on the junction box to access the wiring connections. Not the easiest, but possible.
Frank DuVal
Of course, it requires that there be appropriate slack in the cable.
If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people
happy?
No slack in the cable is necessary for new installation type cans, as the cable factory preinstalled between the can and the junction box is cut to a length to allow the can to be moved for access to the junction box. Slack in the house wiring would be needed for the remodel type fixture where you are wiring the junction box standing below the ceiling and then shoving the assembly back into the hole.Frank DuVal
Look at the junction box on a N/C can. It can be opened from both sides. After install the can portion can be removed allowing access to the back side of the junction box.
No extra slack is needed in the wire.
as said ... they're accessable.
not easily to someone that doesn't rebuild them often ...
but they do come apart.
have seen my electrician do it a coupla times after a helper misses something in the initial wiring.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Yes, they are accessable, and they make a handy access hole for a four square in the ceiling if you have other joints to make and you don't have room in the baox attached to the can. Problem is, not many people know to look above the ceiling next to a can for a j-box.There are no electrons! It is all made up. Don't believe it.
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