Breaker Handle ties requirements
- Thread starter chris1971
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- Massachusetts
You should start a poll.
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- Licensed Electrician
Not for me. Most every time I do a change out I put everything back in the same order I find it.
We used to do it that way until an inspector brought it to my attention. Got to keep the AHJ happy.
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- Massachusetts
I am doing a reno job in an office building that was built under the 2002 NEC, it has many MWBC furniture feeds.
Long story short the furniture is being replaced and now the inspector says I must handle tie the existing circuits we will reuse.
I feel he is over reaching but I will not fight it.
Long story short the furniture is being replaced and now the inspector says I must handle tie the existing circuits we will reuse.
I feel he is over reaching but I will not fight it.
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- Licensed Electrician
And a good example of when you don't want to move stuff around. A lot of the old MWBC weren't even grouped coming into the panel let alone landed in order.
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- Massachusetts
Very true, in my case they are all sequential so I got lucky.
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- Licensed Electrician
You can be sure it wasn't something I wired up back before 2002 then!
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- Massachusetts
You can be sure it wasn't something I wired up back before 2002 then!
Same here, I would bounce my MWBCs all over the panel
No, I'll just have a BBQ sandwich for lunch.
Extra mustard please...:roll:
Unless you want him to give you are hard time evey time you work in his town.
davidaengelhart
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Fix what you touch; Florida Existing Building Code
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- Simi Valley, CA
We require it on service changes. I would not require it if you were using existing circuits, but I do require it for all new circuits.
The thing is too, unless it's cable, is that you have a hard time complying with 210.4(D) when asking them to upgrade existing circuits.
The thing is too, unless it's cable, is that you have a hard time complying with 210.4(D) when asking them to upgrade existing circuits.
paul
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- Snohomish, WA
Wasn't a MWBC furniture feed required to be tied together in 2002? I'm thinking that change came in with the 1996 code cycle for furniture. Maybe that was a WA state requirement.
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- Licensed Electrician
Probably a state thing. It wasn't until '08 that the"MWBC Handle Tie Rule" was added to the NEC.
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