That's just dumb... there is NO VALID ARGUMENT I can think of for ripping out and replacing perfectly good stranded wire in conduit with solid wire. None.I was on the job for two weeks and we were using stranded.Then we were told by the engineering department to pull everything out and take all stranded off site.
Pulling many solid conductors through 90's is hard and time consuming.
The only reason you need is that I said so!That's just dumb... there is NO VALID ARGUMENT I can think of for ripping out and replacing perfectly good stranded wire in conduit with solid wire. None.
I was on the job for two weeks and we were using stranded.Then we were told by the engineering department to pull everything out and take all stranded off site.
Pulling many solid conductors through 90's is hard and time consuming.
"this is the way the entire plant is" becomes
the reason in and of itself.
Typically the specs on most of our jobs (from small to large) call for solid for conductors #10 and smaller. We do not have problems pulling them in conduits.
Roger
Bingo
And if we put in stranded anyway we might have to replace it.
I have had engineers spec solid on #10 and smaller as they prefer solid terminations on devices.
I was asked to inspect a automatic sandblaster one time and found they used all black solid wire. Made them pull it all out not to code (200 or so control wires) . Somewhere in says machine tools shall use stranded wire.
Is that what you actually wrote on the red tag?Somewhere in says machine tools shall use stranded wire.
not in the NEC.
NFPA79 requires it but that is not normally an enforceable code.
No. It was an inhouse inspection on a machine on a navy base, 30+ years agoIs that what you actually wrote on the red tag?
Roger
In-house inspection on a Navy base is completely subject to shirt pocket rules.No. It was an inhouse inspection on a machine on a navy base, 30+ years ago