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Derlyn it started out as connection to down lighters but the rest is not really wondering of the point as it is about how we make connections to be safe. Back to the point of the round box. Yes most light fittings have a connector on them. But what if its one of those lights that just have the piece of flex with the holder on the end ? Also what do you do if you have more than 1 neutral as most holders cant take 2 as they are barely big enough for one ? Not being funny but using a round box to make connections in then to me seems perfectly fine as it ticks all the boxes. The cables are secured ( if you use glands )no live conductors can be touched with the standard test finger with out removing a cover with a tool ( thats if you put on a cover) and can be serviced if it is in a place where you can reach it and you use block connectors to join the cables. To make it maintenance free if it is in a place where it cant be reached use ferrules and heat shrink. I would personally not just twist the wires together and tape them or use a screwit. I have seen more screwits come loose with out much effort than I have seen correctly selected block connectors melt. Correct me if I am wrong but I have seen joints in round boxes in houses with black metal tubing,black plastic tubing,white plastic tubing. The little round box has been there long before any of the other fancy junction boxes we have today has come on the market and I think thats why it has been used for joining cables for as long as most electricians can remember. The are also to me much sturdier and hold the cables beter. I will even admit that I have used them a few times to even make joints thats buried under the ground. I stuffed them full of that black putty compound. I know of at least one thats probably 18 years old and still in the ground and they are still working away with no problems.
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no surprise
Personally i have never come across a building in Durban where round conduit boxes are not being used as connection/junction boxes for lights ... 5 amp socket outlets ... dome lids with extractor fans ... you name it ... it is being used as a junction box for terminating cables
In fact while collecting equipment at AC/DC ... all the wago demo units display are using round conduit boxes as junction boxes.
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Yeah, it's standard practice everywhere I've been in SA. Given the regs defer to the manufacturers instructions, if a round box wasn't marked specifically to forbid internal connections and there wasn't a manufacturers spec sheet available on site would you fail the installation for a CoC?
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Originally from Cape town and I can tell you its as common as anything. Also here in Bloemfontein where I am currently.
Hi
I have searched the regulations and the theory over no joints in a round box as been bugging us in the workshop.
I was with an AIA this afternoon and posed the question on joints in a round box or drawbox - His statement was " that is what a drawbox is for " .
I am now confident that we can continue using round boxes as joint boxes.
Hi GCE
It seems as if the left hand of the AIA doesn't know what the right hand is saying or doing .
It was the same AIA that informed a senior member of the ECA in our valley that connections are not allowed in an
Inspection box or drawbox.
It had nothing to do with the regulations, but manufacturer's specifications apparently. He might have been wrong.
I have stopped using round boxes for connections and use connection boxes or terminal boxes instead. ( just in case )
Peace out .. Derek
Last edited by Derlyn; 04-Nov-20 at 09:41 PM.
Every single electrical installations would be illegal in KZN if this was true ... from what I remember back in the day when i bothered with rules and regs ... you were not allowed to make joints in TEEs and elbows ... they had to be done in junction (round boxes) boxes.
Every single light fitting in in office flats and the like with junction boxes would have to be chopped out and replaced ... I cant see that happening.
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