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  1. J

    Delete...

    I deleted also or is I am deleted
  2. J

    Grounding/Bonding and gas piping systems.

    The gas pipe is allowed to be bonded to one of these four places; service equipment enclosure, the grounded conductor at the service, the grounding electrode conductor where of sufficient size, or to the one or more grounding electrodes used. What you describe sounds like the contractor is in...
  3. J

    Travel Plans

    I usually do some extensive planning when doing a vacation. First thing I do is see how many days I am going to be gone and plan on having someone come by to tend to the livestock. Then I plan on how to ensure that there is enough feed to last during my leave. Then I take the truck out to the...
  4. J

    Type NM-B Pulled In Before Building Dried In.

    The phrase “slinging rope” which is related to installing NM cable and cowboys go hand and hand in my neck of the woods. Residential electricians are referred to as cowboys. Electricians who work in maintenance shops are referred to as bulb changers. Of course this is the terms used by...
  5. J

    Type NM-B Pulled In Before Building Dried In.

    What about the cowboy that works out of a pick-up truck? the cable is in the open bed during a rain right.
  6. J

    OSHA fines for electrical violations

    Hey Jar, I work for the government and my wife tells me all the time that I am worthless. There are even a few electrical contractors that have called the office and said that I was worthless. Now that is funny I don’t care who you are.
  7. J

    Too bad, So sad

    does anyone else have a problem with the 3R enclosure having fittings higher than the bus bars? I see two in the lower left side of this enclosure
  8. J

    smoke alarms

    In a two bedroom apartment there is one alarm in each bedroom and one unit on the outside of the two bedrooms. The bedrooms are separated by the distance of about 20 feet. The electrical contractor is saying that as long as the outside alarm is within ten feet of each bedroom it meets the...
  9. J

    what is

    So far this is real good but leads to a second question if you would be so kind the day before Christmas. I have receptacles that are looking between two apartments on the two walls that separate the two units. As far as the building code what if any thing must be done to prevent the spread of...
  10. J

    what is

    R2, R3, R4 and so on and so forth talking about in the building codes? What is the R and number for apartments?
  11. J

    NEC 250.121 change

    This is true that current will take all paths but that is not the point. The point is that when we try to use the equipment grounding conductor of the feeders to connect the service disconnect electrodes to that remote building we have taken away one of the paths and the most important path, the...
  12. J

    NEC 250.121 change

    Not trying to sound rude toward you in any way but this statement is obvious. You will have a direct connection from the main to the electrode but from the building the connection is indirect unless a new electrode system is established at the building. Any high current imposed on the remote...
  13. J

    NEC 250.121 change

    250.4(A)(1) is very clear of the purpose of the grounding electrode. If we understand the purpose of the grounding electrode then there is no problem understanding 250.121. Let’s think about something for just a second. There is a 10 foot square metal storage building 100 feet away from the...
  14. J

    Inspection Response Times

    When a call is made on Monday we will get to it on Wednesday if we can. Any inspection rolled over today will be first on the list for tomorrow. We are a city of just under 300K and 131.2 square miles. We have two and a half inspectors with one supervisor. I consider myself half as I have no...
  15. J

    Continuing Education

    Here in the great state of NC the state must approve both the course and instructor. There will be a fee for the class and with the contractors board at least 4 of the required 8 hours is required in a classroom. People who have a Standard Certificate as well as a contracting license can get...
  16. J

    Inspecting Fire Alarm Systems

    building electrical and fire here
  17. J

    MC to PVC

    MC cable has an insulated equipment grounding conductor inside the sheath to do any bonding with. The sheath is bonded by the fitting on the panel end so I suppose it is bonded and the box that the PVC lands in is bonded with the EGC. I do know that the threads of the fittings and the coupling...
  18. J

    MC to PVC

    2011 NEC or any type of UL listing concerning the installation
  19. J

    MC to PVC

    In a renovation the electrical contractor used a PVC male adapter, rigid coupling, and a MC connector to install stripped out MC in PVC under a concrete slab at which point it terminated in a square metal box. The circuit from the panel to the PVC is MC cable and transitions to the PVC that is...
  20. J

    new to inspections

    some sound advice that I shall take to heart. Many times I hear that the new inspector is to turn down everything they can find in order to show the contractors that he isn't going to take and bull from them but I have always thought this was not such a good approach to the job.
  21. J

    new to inspections

    As an instructor of electrical inspectors I get asked in about every class if there is any advice for someone starting in the inspection trade. Care to give advice to a new person in the inspection trade that would be useful to them starting out?
  22. J

    Top three problems facing code officials today

    You have brought up a biggie in your number two. I have heard many code officials make the statement that they spend their days teaching electricians or other trades their respective codes but as a contractor I can go from one jurisdiction to another and have opposing opinions on the same code...
  23. J

    Recent fires stir concerns about adequacy of state's fire sprinkler requirements

    Don't know how much one life is worth but I know I will give everything I own to save mime of one of my family members from death but alas we all have the promise of death
  24. J

    Service disconnect connections

    Disregard this statement as I was having a senior moment
  25. J

    Service disconnect connections

    It seems to me that the neutral is paralleled
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