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HWQS WPM? Seroiusly, Who Designed this Thing?-Install Alert.
Went to a project where we needed to add 2 switching modules and 2 power boosters to an existing project due to the load schedule changing. Trying to have as much forethought as we can in the ever changing LED lighting world, we always tell the electrician to pipe a 4 square box to each of the WPM locations, with its own circuit, in the event we need to add an interface module in the future.
This has never been a problem in the past, as the Homeworks WPM was pretty well laid out, and fit nicely into a 4 gang deep masonry box.
Well, whoever did the redesign on the HWQS WPM I don't think ever installed one. With the top loading switchlegs, there is barely enough room to get the WPM into a 4G box as it is. Add wires coming from a conduit anywhere but at the back of the box, and you are hosed. The nipple on these conduits was barely protruding, and the WPM wouldn't fit. So after an hour of cutting, bending, and hammering, I was finally able to get the WPM and power booster feed wires in.
Total PITA.
Seriously, if you guys are going to do a redesign on the WPM boxes and make them so wide, and tight ( I have no idea how you would add more than one interface module and still be legal with boxfill), why not spec a 5 gang box with a 5 gang faceplate, an make everyone's life easier.
For those of you roughing these in now, MAKE SURE NOT TO HAVE THE CONDUIT PROTRUDE AT ALL INTO THE BOX, OR LOAD IT FROM THE BACK HOLES.
This little bit protruding is all it takes to prevent the WPM from going into the wallbox.
This should have been a 30 minute install, instead it turned into 3 hours of modification with the drywall saw, hammer, and hacksaw. Come On Lutron, make it easier for us to sell this stuff.