On 07/12/2016 12:14 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
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The fish tank will located "2 fence sections" away from the shed and right
up against the fence. I was planning on attaching an in-use receptacle
to the 4x4 nearest the tank and running the UF wire between the slats so
that it lies on top of the lower rail support.

Is this envisioned permanent? If so, I'm like gfretwell, go ahead and
string the conduit. Either way, I'd place it on the bottom, not the top
of the rail; while not likely, something falling can theoretically still
hit it on the top plus it'll be less visible (my primary reason,
personally, if it were mine to do).

It seems to me that running the wire in between the slats makes it more
protected than buried. Is that not true/allowed?

Wouldn't know that I'd say "more", certainly different possible hazards.

Not positive on Code on this one, inside a living area I _think_ even
with the fence slats, if it were on the top side of support it'd need
the protection of at least a guard strip as it is (at least as I
envision it) still possible for some object to fall on it between the
vertical slats. That _may_ not be so; just seems like it would be to my
way o' thinkin'...

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