I agree, the NEC is a standard, one that i live by and aspire to every day. The problem is that it it heading towards becoming overbearing, more legal than electrical. Fred Hartwell wrote a good article on this a while ago, i respect the fact that he had the gonads to say it the way he did. One must consider future sparky's having to muddle through all of this to make a living......while your local Home Depot will be doing aisleway seminars for a public, most of whom don't know an outlet from an omlet......another good case in point is my home state of Vermont, where single family dwellings are wired by roving packs of monkey's.......no sparky required.....yet for sparky to bid it out it's got to have things like AFCI's next month........which the monkey's will not do...so you see,the changes should work for the sparky as well as the public......or soon you have the problem as pointed out by the powers that be....there's no more sparky's around than 20 years ago.....no one wants to be a sparky.....
