Timeline for Can I run power from inside cabinets to an externally mounted fixture?
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| May 6, 2020 at 1:07 | comment | added | Jeremy | Can you use a low voltage light instead? | |
| May 1, 2020 at 0:11 | comment | added | Mazura | You had me at EMT and metal box. No where on Earth is that not ok afaik. It's even in the code that there be an outlet just like that in the lower cabinet at the end of a peninsula. The only problem is when the cabinet isn't permanently affixed, and that's one of the only times I get to use BX (in Chicago; EMT-land). | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Hot Licks | And note that the better option might be to put an outlet in the back wall and run a standard rubber power cord from there to the fixture, with no box on the side wall. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I'd maybe use flat "raceway" rather than EMT. But that doesn't greatly reduce the size of the boxes. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 16:41 | comment | added | joseph.hainline | Yeah, that is a problem. Any ideas of a better way at this point? | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/1255874612539404292 | ||
| Apr 30, 2020 at 14:05 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The main problem with your approach is that it will greatly reduce the usability of the cabinet. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 12:10 | history | edited | Machavity |
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| Apr 30, 2020 at 9:11 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 30, 2020 at 3:01 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 1:16 | answer | added | NoSparksPlease | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 1:06 | history | asked | joseph.hainline | CC BY-SA 4.0 |