Electrical Home Run Box. A breaker box or circuit breaker is placed securely in every home. These boxes protect wiring from the elements with gaskets, sealed seams and watertight covers.
It houses a single electrical switch or outlet and comes in metal or nonmetallic units. It is important to consider the height the local electrician installs your box in. It is recommended to use a junction box when connecting two or more wires.
It also must run within 12 inches of each metal box or within 8 inches of each nonmetallic box.
Also known as ‘star wiring’ because of its resemblance to a starburst shape, home run wiring consists of a number of ‘home runs’ from a central distribution point to various places in a building or home. The wire heading to the panel is called a “home run” beginners should work on one circuit at a time pulling the home run first and then interconnecting all the boxes on that circuit. Wires aren't the only things that count during box fill calculations,. Anyone who is involved in electrics and wiring knows the value and uses the boxes often.
