CRAZY!! STUFFING AS MANY WIRES AS YOU CAN INTO A METAL BOX. #electricallife #electrician

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[TJDAGAMER]

15 conductors incoming, and 17 total right there. Single box I believe is 11max. All grounds inside count as a single conductor. Extension allows about twice that...

Besides the volume of the receptacle, this is probably alright. Besides the missing screw...

[iaov]

The electricians art… getting 10 pounds of stuff in a 5 pound box! 😊

[frankward]

Box?? We don't need no steenkin box!! 😂

[theprairiefiles]

It's got an extension ring,
Looks good to me

[GailUrge-vqqn]

Looks like an attic junction box having an outlet that's powering 3 or 4 outlets and 3 or 2 switch boxes below

[JoseIbarra-kt]

It has an extension ring so by code it increases its wire volume capacity by 2. So it should be good if not anything bigger than 10 or 12 awg

[MUGSHOTRECORDS]

Only 7 I could got 10 in there and made it look beautiful 😅

[tailgunner]

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[dillonweaver]

That’s what the extension ring is for lol

[bobchurchray]

Each grounded (neutral) conductor and each ungrounded (hot) conductor, originating outside the box and terminating inside the box, counts as one conductor

[garbo]

Wife fill also depends if you only use a shoe horn or rubber mallet. Extra wires possible when you use two shoe horns and a rubber mallet to get wires in a box. Was doing volunteer work at my sons school buildout. Old electrician in charge forgot how to perform wire calulations. I wanted to use either a 10 by 10 junction box or foot long trough in each new class room. Several circuits were added towards end if job. To ended up using three 4 by 4" square extension boxes.

[dannyamericandream]

Structure is over 100 years old glad to see the mess is at least made up of romex wire and not knob and tube . That’s the positive here.

[SgtJoeSmith]

I'd have 2 j boxes and a single gang outlet box if I done it

[MitchellBussear]

Its leaga, l 1 4S box 1 4S extension ring, 1 receptacle ring cover. If it we're me, i would've installed a 5-S deep box and 1" inch receptacle ring

[wizardz]

if there all no12 with the expansion ring and the few cm from the mud ring it just makes it for fill

[GGg-ugjr]

Is there a limit to how many, generally?

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[mikestewart]

But isn't that why they put all the knockouts in there, so you can use every one of them correct???

[davidgay]

dude i think that was put in before code existed lol

[WillMag]

I think all boxes should be made bigger by by code.