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I am installing a Buck&Boost transformer. Do i need to have a secondary OCPD.I tried to find it in the 1999 handbook(nec) no luck.

When does an installation require secondary protection?

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Edward.


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You will probably only have to supply overcurrent protection on the primary side. 450.6(A) and (B) discuss a couple of instances in which secondary OCPD's are required. [Linked Image]


Ryan Jackson,
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Buck Boosts are autotransformer's and are only required to have primary protection.

450-4(a) 1999 or 2002


Bob Badger
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They're covered in 99NEC 450-4(a) Autotransformers… Secondary overcurrent protection is generally not required, but also note when “secondary” [shunt] OCP is prohibited.




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