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The fast food joints I have worked in got around this "middle of the room" problem with pendant cords. Take a look at the "fry dump" at a Burger King. They are fryers and the dump station on a cart. (at least around here)
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Unfortunately the "powers that be" design the kitchens. Us lowly electricians have no input; we just deal with the probs.
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Sometime you have to fight the power. These fast food places don't make a lot of mistakes. My experience is 12 years old but they had their stuff so 16 year olds could move it around and hose out behind it. I seem to remember IEC(309?) connectors hanging on SO cord in kellum grips
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You think you have commercial kitchen probs:
I work for a school system in VA and we're just going to the 05 code (we're a little slow here). We have about 75 schools and each has a kitchen. Each kitchen has from one to about ten receptacles mounted on boxes about 3 inches off the floor (and fed by a pipe in the slab) to plug in the various coolers and warmers. Now these all need to be GFIs. We're guessing the life of an "in use" cover to be about the third time they move the machine (they all have wheels to move for cleaning) and the life of the GFI to be the third mopping. GFI breakers are feasable in about 2/3 of the panels but the mops will still fill the receps with water and the compressors will still occasionally trip a GFI and ruin the milk or ice cream overnight. The AHJ has already told us he will not grant us an exception and allow single receps (like the residential exception) even for dedicated circuits, which these all are. We anticipate a nightmare. Why are you having to CHANGE EXISTING equipment to a new code? What am I missing here? RC
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