jeremy.zinkofsky
Senior Member
- Location
- nj
Situation:
There is a string of single bulb T8 flourescent industrial strip lights that are all daisy chained together, the fixtures themselves are not mechanically joined together. The architect has added a wall that will come up right in the middle of one of these fixtures. The contractor wants to just take the bulbs out and leave it there to be walled around. The light fixture will not be disconnected from the circuit. Basically, the contractor doesn't want to spend the extra time (and money) to disconnect & remove the light fixture and re-route the conduit and cable to the next fixture down the line, effectively bypassing the abandoned light fixture.
I have told the contractor NO as this is just a lazy and bad idea that can cause a host of future problems for troubleshooting, fire hazard, etc. Setting that aside, my question turns to the code. Is there anything that specifically prohibits this from happening? I have looked at NEC Articles 410.8 & 410.64. Could you say that Article 410.64 applies to this situation because the lights are daisy chained together? Would the abandoned fixture cease to be classified as a luminaire and then become a raceway because it's only purpose is to act as a sort of housing for cables from one light to another?
There is a string of single bulb T8 flourescent industrial strip lights that are all daisy chained together, the fixtures themselves are not mechanically joined together. The architect has added a wall that will come up right in the middle of one of these fixtures. The contractor wants to just take the bulbs out and leave it there to be walled around. The light fixture will not be disconnected from the circuit. Basically, the contractor doesn't want to spend the extra time (and money) to disconnect & remove the light fixture and re-route the conduit and cable to the next fixture down the line, effectively bypassing the abandoned light fixture.
I have told the contractor NO as this is just a lazy and bad idea that can cause a host of future problems for troubleshooting, fire hazard, etc. Setting that aside, my question turns to the code. Is there anything that specifically prohibits this from happening? I have looked at NEC Articles 410.8 & 410.64. Could you say that Article 410.64 applies to this situation because the lights are daisy chained together? Would the abandoned fixture cease to be classified as a luminaire and then become a raceway because it's only purpose is to act as a sort of housing for cables from one light to another?