Ah….so you removed a conduit that dropped down to the machine and coiled up the THHN. I probably would have done the same thing and just capped it off with wire nuts, but I can imagine someone seeing THHN outside of a conduit and fussing about it.
From: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 8:45 PM To: dmmoff...@gmail.com Cc: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT NEC THHN. And we learned that the fire code for pallet racks is proportional to square footage. We think we are in the lowest group so almost no rules by our reading. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 12, 2023, at 5:50 PM, dmmoff...@gmail.com <mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: On 1) it’s common practice to wirenut the conductors together on the dead wire. Then if someone got confused later and energized it they’d immediately pop their breaker. That’s safer than having someone accidentally put 208V into a wire hanging in the middle of nowhere. I can’t imagine why it would be cited as “junction box without cover”. What type of wire is it? Something like an SJOW coming out of a box? Maybe put a twist-lock socket on the end of it and re-energize it. Now it’s an outlet. (2) might not be a misunderstanding. NFPA has definitions for various classes of flammable materials, and depending on what you’re storing it might not be that you can’t put flammable items on the racks, rather you might be required to have a sprinkler system in order to do so. -Adam From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:17 PM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com <mailto:ch...@go-mtc.com> Subject: [AFMUG] OT NEC Got gigged by the fire department today on a couple items. 1) Hand coil of wire up in the ceiling over a spot where a machine used to be. Not gonna cut it off as some other machine may go there. It is coiled and cut dead and capped in the breaker panel. They are quoting a junction box without a cover and saying I guess I have to mount a big assed box up there to enclose this dead wire? Opinions. 2) Nothing flammable on our pallet racking. Every warehouse I have ever been has pallet racking full of things in corrugated boxes. Having a hard time buying this. So we can only store steel and rocks up there. They do say we can put our non flammable items on a pallet.... Anyone ever run across this before? Best Regards, Chuck McCown McCown Technology Corporation 8401 N Commerce Dr Lake Point, Utah 84074 801-250-9503 Office 435-830-4306 Cell <http://www.mccowntech.com> www.mccowntech.com <http://www.microtrench.pro> www.microtrench.pro <http://www.terabitnetworks.com> www.terabitnetworks.com
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