On Oct 10 2015 7:38 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 10 October 2015 08:29:49 Kenneth Lerman wrote: > >> See NEC comment, below > > [...] > >> My understanding (I'm not an electrician, nor do I play one on TV) >> is >> that you can wrap red tape around a white wire (at both ends) so as >> to >> "convert" the wire to red. > > Neither am I Kenneth, I am a C.E.T. though. And I have played one of > them on tv! ;-) > > But I have had to instruct electricians about such things as most > have > never seen a copy of the NEC here in WV. I have had to live and work > around some very poorly constructed systems that were simply > grandfathered in, or would have been prohibitively expensive to fix > in > terms of downtime and labor after the fact if and when WV ever made > law > of something like the NEC. > > Since the NEC is so damnedably fond of sueing any state that uses it > for > the fine print in their state codes for copyright violations to the > fullest extent possible, we may not have a state code at all & TBT I > haven't asked. Can of worms etc...
Has anyone looked into proposing modified codes from some other standards body like the CSA, IEC or even DIN? It would be an interesting exercise to ask the open standards body about using them, and then the reactyion of a State suggesting using something other than the NEC because of their copyright shenanagans... Just say'n EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
