More LED Lighting In RACO 175 Junction Boxes

Sometimes even the volume of a RACO 175 junction box isn't enough to complete wiring or to provide space to fit the block of a driver for surface mount LED lighting. Add then, a RACO 128 extension ring . Know that no similar option exists for plastic or fiberglass lighting junction boxes.


Here is a job photo album, where numerous box extensions were employed:
Damascus Attic, Lights Below .

The home was built in 1969. For copper thrift perhaps, all wiring lacked a recommended excess of length both within boxes and in the approach to a junction box or can. Here a pancake box must be replaced to have volume to accommodate an LED converter block and to achieve air tightness to the attic.

With the extension ring, I can pull enough cable length to permit secure clamping.

6" Glimpse lights were much-loved while they remained available. 

Sometimes the air sealing need was extreme, here with a loose box protruding from the ceiling plane.

This was the typical taut-wires thin-box situation fixed.

Wet surfaces and butter flexible grout to mend the eroded drywall and to fill excess openings of the junction box. Use extension rings only when  needed.

Place reset or new base-layer insulation under the lighting wires. Want the lift of a single top-layer batt to reveal the wiring. Generally do not prefer use of R38 batts.

Replace a very leaky and dim bulb can over a tiled shower.

Here want no more than the 450 lumens illumination of a 4" Glimpse, replacing the 270 lumens of a 60 watt incandescent bulb.

Carpentry was needed to affix the steel box assembly against the tiled ceiling with its odd array of supporting 2x4s.