<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Marco:<br> You are correct, I have noticed that most LBs do limit the fill area of your conduit. As you probably notice, making a 90 bend requires some extra area, especially for large conductors. This is one good reason to not fill the conduits to maximum capacity. Most LBs and other boxes do list the area of the box on it. If you are not sure, you should perform a calculation to determine how much of the total area you are consuming, based upon NEC requirements.<br><div> </div>Nick Soleil<br>Project Manager<br>Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC<br>PO Box 657<br>Petaluma, CA 94953<br>Cell: 707-321-2937<br>Office: 707-789-9537<br>Fax: 707-769-9037<div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div
style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Marco Mangelsdorf <marco@pvthawaii.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 12, 2010 8:19:08 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [RE-wrenches] Aluminum conduit LBs<br></font><br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off">
<style>
<!--
_filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
_filtered {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{font-family:"sans-serif";color:windowtext;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{font-family:"sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{}
_filtered {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{}
-->
</style>
<div class="Section1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone know where I could go to find out the max conductor
sizes that threaded Al. LBs can handle?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I learned the hard way that a conduit of X inches that can
handle conductors of a certain size does not necessarily mean that a LB of the
same diameter can handle the same size conductors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">marco</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"></div></div>
</div><br>
</body></html>