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I have a question to do with the aluminum wiring I have in my house ...
There doesn't seem to be much objection to the safety of CO/ALR devices (switches and oulets), unlike twist ons (read P.S.) The biggest objection being that you can only change your switches and oulets, not your lights, GFCI, etc. My main problem that I still need a solution for in my home is connecting my CU approved lighting to the AL wiring. What do you think of the idea of using a CU/ALR outlet to make the transition between AL and CU. I'd place an oulet box in my attic (all the lights I'm concerned about have an attic above them), put an CU/ALR outlet in it, connect the AL wire to two of the screws and connect the CU wire to the other set of screws. The only thing left is the grounding wires which I could connect to two seperate gounding screws in the box or if code requires it use a twist on. So has anyone ever tried this? Any comments, feedback, etc? Thanks, Harry P.S. I know the Ideal-65 purple twist on connectors are considered safe by some for pigtailing aluminum to copper wire, however, there's also others who still consider them fire hazards. I'm hoping to stay away from these if possible and would rather make any aluminum to copper connections in some other way. Hence my question. |
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