On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 4:30:22 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:17:24 -0700 (PDT), TimR
wrote:

On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 2:14:08 PM UTC-4, sparky wrote:
replying to sym, sparky wrote:
Bad idea sym. NEC does not allow the use of both screws and the back push
holes on the same outlet.
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You replied to a 10 year old post.

His house long ago burned down.

... and gave a bad answer to boot. The NEC is silent on the issue and
U/L simply said the use had not be evaluated (as of the white book a
few cycles ago. I have not looked recently)
I would really be more concerned about box fill because this usually
indicated an extra cable was added.


Whenever I had a lot of wires in a box and I knew there was no room for wire nuts, I used the push in connectors because that type connector took up a lot less room in a box. I'd come out of the connectors with pigtails for the wiring devices. Those connectors are also the fastest way to connect wires when changing a florescent ballast. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

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