

The box isn't designed to meet those requirements, and moisture is likely to get inside the box and damage the components the box is intended to protect.īack when i was in this line of work, you had to check the box part number and be sure. On the other hand, you don't want to use an indoor rated enclosure in an outdoor application. It costs too much, and the gains in exposure resistance aren't beneficial.

Needless to say, you didn't want to mix them up.Īn outdoor rated enclosure in an indoor application is overkill. I dealt regular dealt with outdoor (more robust, but expensive) and indoor (less robust, but less expensive) enclosures. For the purposes of this post, let's just deal with indoor, and outdoor applications. If you want to read about the ratings, feel free to follow the link, it's good information.
