NEC -- manufacturers paradise
NEC -- manufacturers paradise
The webinar also claimed that the NFPA had changed the process, I think they used the word streamlined, but I don't recall exactly. If by streamlined they mean they made it much harder for the public at large to have any effective input, they are certainly accurate in that respect.
The new TR, AFCI, and GFCI requirements certainly look like a financial windfall for manufacturers.
I think we should go back to basics. There are buildings not burning down with knob and tube wiring. I think the restriction on new knob-and-tube wring is just a ploy by the cable and conduit manufacturers.
The hoopla about the efficacy of GFCIs is overrated. I'm sure they have faked the statistics about the lowering of electrocutions since they have been introduced -- and HORRORS -- required. Anyone dumb enough to use electric near water or grounded item deserves what they get.
As a matter of fact the grounding requirements are just a way of selling a third conductor where you only need 2.
And the new fancy receptacles, don't get me started, if using Edison receptacles for lamps and irons and sweepers was good enough for my grandmother, it's good enough for me. It is a good thing however that they are no longer requiring fuse wires on the pendant lamp receptacle rosettes, 'cause they were always blowing when I run the sweeper, the light and the toaster using a multiple adapter. And that rule about receptacles every 12 feet, why you can just run a couple of wires from the light receptacle in the center of the room down to the floor and then run extension cords under the rugs to the radiola and such around the room.
And then there is the business about 90 degree insulation for lighting fixtures (I will not say lumin**res). If you don't touch the wires the insulation powder won't fall off the 60 degree wire.
And then there is the wide prong scam that means I have to trim the neutral prong or buy new extension cords from the extension cord cabal.
You know I would be hard pressed to find a code change in the last 40 years that was not just a way for manufacturers to make more money. None of it is about safety -- they just make it up.
Come to think of it maybe we should just use the 1920 version of the code and quit spending all this money on new code books.