VEVORNEMA Steel Enclosure, 24 x 24 x 8'' NEMA 4X Steel Electrical Box, IP66 Waterproof & Dustproof, Outdoor/Indoor Electrical Junction Box, with Mounting Plate

Excellent value for price. Much cheaper than the competition and seems pretty well made. Wish the corner protection was a bit better in the shipping materials, one corner had chipped powder coat, but for the price I'll live with it.

Nice NEMA box

I have bought plastic boxes for housing all kinds of things like relays , power supplies, charging stations, etc. The plastic boxes always fail the same way, they get brittle with UV light, and warp until they no longer seal out water. I have replaced water timers and other products because the plastic box they are held in all fall apart. So Again, I’m replacing a water sprinkler timer in a plastic box. This time though, I spent more on the box then on the timer to prevent future failures. I purchased the 16x16x6 all metal Vevor box ip66 box with a lock for my rental house. The housing is well made all powder coated steel with hinges and a grounded front cover with a bottom plate that is removable and can be drilled for power cords and wires that is sealed with a gasket. The front door is also sealed. Inside is mounted an exterior rated sprinkler timer by Orbit but since I’ve had so many supposedly exterior rated devises and boxes fail I decided no more. I mounted this sprinkler timer onto the removable back inside the box and ran a120 volt exterior duplex box with a gfci outlet to inside the metal box to power the timer and the wires for the valves come up through the bottom cover where I drilled two 3/4 holes in the cover and installed plastic hole bushings to prevent chafing of the wires and mounted the entire assembly to the eastern facing side of the house. I live in the SF bay area and all weather comes from the west and moves easterly. The box is on the leeward side of the house and is protected from weather by a 24 inch roof overhang in a sheltered patio. The lockable door is to prevent renters from getting into the box and changing the watering timer settings or unplugging it from the outlet. I’m a happy landlord now with it all buttoned up neatly inside this all metal box that should not leak or warp and is pretty secure. The door lock is a little chinsy and can be opened by a screwdriver if needs be but is enough to keep it fairly secure. If you need a real lock to secure the box and its contents you’ll have to find a lock with a key and replace the cheap lock. Overall, I am very satisfied with this box and it’s overall appearance as well as its build quality. It should now outlast me. Drilling the inside of the box to run romex and drilling the back and plate on the bottom as well as securing the timer and exterior rated duplex box revealed perhaps a 16 of an inch thick steel plate so, its definitely sturdy. The powder coating is even throughout and looks great.

I bought this item to replace an older Apollo gate control box that was rusting out. The problem is that it does not have the same dimension as the old box (which was installed onto 1/2" thick metal strapping). IT took a lot of intense drilling to create support holes in the approximate locations to fit the box. My situation may be unique, but just beware that the hinges on this unit are flexible and may be higher or lower than any previous installation. Also, the removable gasketed plate at the bottom did not line up with my gate cables and I had to cut an additional hole in the base of the unit.That said, it is a wonderful box: sturdy, weatherproof, lockable. It looks like it will last a long time.

You will probably pay 25% more than I did.

I have purchased electrical enclosures on Amazon before and set my expectation for this box accordingly. Other boxes were so thin they barely held the door on without sagging, not this one.For starters, it came packaged, like they knew it was going to get thrown around for 1,000s of miles before the box was opened... 1/2" foam on all sides within a thick cardboard box. It also had plastic, disposable corner guards on all the corners.This box came with a back panel, many of the brand name boxes make you buy a separate panel and hardware to mount, with special "anti-rotate" nuts. The main box had a grounding lug on it as well as the door and they included a piece of bonding wire.The door has a special "Rittel Like" key, seems a little light weight, but they give you two.The best part is the price, I would expect a name brand box of this size to be a couple of hundred $$$. The quality is there, the price isn't... I will search for this brand in the future when a control box is required.

Great product and it shipped quickly!

I used this as a weatherproof entry for my antenna cables into my Amateur Radio Station. Very nice.Pix is of the first connections, since cleaned and dressed cables. Next is to replace grommets with waterproof bulkhead cable pass-thru devices.