Can anyone explain if NEC does or doesnot apply to communcation electrical equipment.
I recently went to service a transfer switch inside a cell phone tower structure on some remote cowpasture
and the service panel was location so close to the communcation equipment that the door woukd not even
Open and I told tne cell tech that we needed to remove equipment because it violate 3' clearance and he
DEBATED that the structure didnt nnot fall under NEC rules. I told him that if it does or not the entire site
falls under OSHA and NFPA 70e and I wasnt going to perform the maintenace he requested.
I have read this Article800 and I cant see what the heck he is talking about. Does the artile only pertain
To communcation equipment or electrical also insite.
I recently went to service a transfer switch inside a cell phone tower structure on some remote cowpasture
and the service panel was location so close to the communcation equipment that the door woukd not even
Open and I told tne cell tech that we needed to remove equipment because it violate 3' clearance and he
DEBATED that the structure didnt nnot fall under NEC rules. I told him that if it does or not the entire site
falls under OSHA and NFPA 70e and I wasnt going to perform the maintenace he requested.
I have read this Article800 and I cant see what the heck he is talking about. Does the artile only pertain
To communcation equipment or electrical also insite.
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