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Re: Reporting unapproved electrical equipment?
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Posted by mikesh:
I often see Electrical equipment here that is made in the US and is not Listed. I understood that the US requires all electrical product to be listed (approved in Canadian) Today I found a product that cannot be locally approved. Made in Lincoln NE.
I also see a lot of temporary power distribution
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Re: Worth Saving?
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Posted by mikesh:
Is the welder bigger than 2000 watts? I'd guess yes. That transformer will become a fuse when you plug a load bigger than 2000 watts into it. the maximim load at 230 volts is only 8 amps.
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Re: Photo-Bucket Virus warning
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Posted by JoeKP:
Macafee... :D that program is a joke
if you guys want to be protected, go out and download Avira free version, or Avast, and to also get Malwarebytes anti malware, i run those 2 programs, and will stand by them. also if you guys are running firefox, i suggest you guys get adblock plus, it takes ab
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Re: Lost a phase at the office today
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Posted by Tesla:
Single-Phasing makes it impossible for 3-phase motors to START without direct assistance -- you'd have to mechanically flip them over under low-load conditions -- then they can pull-in.
If they are ALREADY running when a leg is lost they will continue to run -- but the surviving Single-Phase wil
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Re: GFCI breaker vs recepticle for 210.8a
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Posted by gfretwell:
I have heard there is a maximum amount of connected wire you can have because of capacitive coupling but so far I haven''t seen that and I have some pretty long GFCI runs. The longest is THHN in EMT which is supposed to be a worst case scenario.
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Re: Old work grounding stumper
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Posted by Rewire:
[quote=George Little]Guess I'm trying to figure out why anything has to be done with existing. But if you insist on doing something, item D. is the only one that meets code.[/quote] The only method that would be questionable would be B but all the others are code compliant
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Re: More sloppyness at BK
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Posted by aussie240:
Reminds me of when all the PCB filled phase correcting capacitors were changed in the lights at my place of work.
The new polyester film capacitors had different mounting arrangements of course. Naturally, the contractors weren't going to waste time installing new mounting clips with several hundre
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Re: Foam insulation cable derating
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Posted by KJay:
As far as I can tell, the derating requirements of 334.80 only apply to more than two NM cables with two or more current carrying conductors if you [u]don't[/u] maintain spacing.
IMO, since the spacing is not defined, it could be 0 to 1mm or even 10-feet... there is no specific distance required to
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Re: Plan Check requirements and "preferences"
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Posted by Scott35:
[b][i]El-Bump'o[/i][/b]
I am contemplating placing the Plans on my site again.
Any input?
Scott
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