Free PDF version of the 2011 NEC

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timlahr

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2011 PDF Version of NEC

2011 PDF Version of NEC

I purchased a spiral version of the 2011 NEC and it has the yellow sticker offering the free PDF version of the 2011 NEC. So I go to look at the back cover for the insert with the promotion code and instructions for download....nothing there! I was at a continuing education class and everyone with the soft cover version had the insert but no one with the spiral version did. I emailed the NFPA about it and they said they didn't sell a spiral version ! So I went to the NFPA's web site and sure enough they only sell a 3 ring binder version of the code( as a loose leaf version).
So......the MEA (Minnesota Electrical Association), where I purchased it, must purchase the pages from the NFPA and then inserts a spiral on the pages. It has all the identical pages...inside back and front cover advertising and everything. I wonder if I will be able to get the free download some how?
 
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I bought the 2008 awhile back, and every week or so it would freak out and do this.

Now, I've downloaded the 2011 about... a month ago? It opened several times just fine, and then this morning it freaked out.

In the past, I had to keep calling or writing NFPA, and they would allow me to throw my old one in the trash and re-download it. After three miscues on the '08 I got my money back. It looks as though the FileOpen DRM crud they smear on it still doesn't work right. :roll:
 
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I have to laugh at all you guys who camp out in front of the supply house waiting for it to open and sell you a 2011 code book. It's all well and good to become familiar with the changes but where has it been adopted into use? I think most have at least until 2014 to get a copy and read through it. Even then there will be a lot of jurisdictions one or two cycles behind and learning anything other than what you are using can lead to confusion. I wouldn't even bother with the '11 unless I knew it was going to be adopted soon where I'm working.

-Hal
 
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elohr46

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My 2011 NEC arrived monday by mail from the IAEI(free to all IAEI members), it has the yellow sticker for the free PFD file. I did download it, seems to work OK but I could not cut and paste, maybe I'm not doing that function correctly.
 
George Stolz

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hbiss said:
I think most have at least until 2014 to get a copy and read through it.
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Most of us actually aren't in NY. Your state has a reputation for being slow to adopt new codes, it's not that way in much of the country. Here in Colorado, I will be tested on the 2011 code in July of 2011.
 
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elohr46 said:
My 2011 NEC arrived monday by mail from the IAEI(free to all IAEI members), it has the yellow sticker for the free PFD file. I did download it, seems to work OK but I could not cut and paste, maybe I'm not doing that function correctly.
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is IAEI giving away free NEC 2011??
 
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romeo

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Free PDF version of the 2011 NEC

hbiss said:
I have to laugh at all you guys who camp out in front of the supply house waiting for it to open and sell you a 2011 code book. It's all well and good to become familiar with the changes but where has it been adopted into use? I think most have at least until 2014 to get a copy and read through it. Even then there will be a lot of jurisdictions one or two cycles behind and learning anything other than what you are using can lead to confusion. I wouldn't even bother with the '11 unless I knew it was going to be adopted soon where I'm working.

-Hal
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I Start using the 2011 here in Massachusetts Jan 1 I already have the handbook and the soft cover I got free for registering to necplus.
 
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