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![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/jt/outdoors.jpg) Interesting! Comments?
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The installer forgot to put a "weathershield" over the 4-S box!
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Did the guy who did this live someplace where it's never windy and the rain always falls dead vertical? ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/biggrin.gif)
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looks to me like that romex needs to have a drip loop where it enters that fixture . This is a very common sight in my part of the country. Unfortunately, as Paul mentioned, it rarely rains vertically here... ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/smile.gif) Mike (mamills)
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All I can say is at least he didn't duct tape the fixture itself -- shades of Haymarket....
So how abraded is the NM where it's touching the edge of the tin?
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At the risk of sounding silly, I have done ASTM "rain" tests for two testing organisations, and that piece of sheet metal might actually pass! (tests typically have little or no wind).
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What about acid rain?
That 4" box doesn't look so weather proof, either.
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Come to think of it...neither does the octagon "handibox" that I bet the guy used for the light fixture either!! Joe do you know if there is one of those octagons with the punch-outs?
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No, but I'll bet it is an octagon box with knockouts!
Maybe the bottom one is open?
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This suggests the topic: should boxes, etc. protected by overhangs be of the outdoor type?
I have learned to make all my stuff outdoors of the "sealed" type; too many times I've had to open boxes that were filled with wasp nests- in one case, even a bird nest!
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