noun General Slang

Peckerhead

· noun · construction

The wiring box bolted to an electric motor where the supply cable lands.

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The terminal box on the side of an electric motor — the little cast housing where the motor's pigtails meet the incoming supply conductors. Every electrician calls it this; nobody calls it the terminal box on a jobsite. The shape (a small protruding head on the motor body) presumably named it.

“Pop the peckerhead and check which way the leads are tied — sounds like it's running backwards.”
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Peckerhead In A Sentence

Pop the peckerhead and check which way the leads are tied — sounds like it's running backwards.

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