Uncle Monster
Thu, 13
Jul 2017 22:30:03 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

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.

They roxor. Aka, quick ports. Possibly slang.



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