Nec code book on phone!?
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Fred B
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- Upstate, NY
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- Electrician
You can get, depending on code cycle, the NEC in a pdf that you can download.
The handbook is the one with pictures right
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
What code cycle? Up to the 2017 you could buy the PDF version and save it to the phone. I have the 2008 through 2017 on my phone. I'm on Android which is simple not sure about the iPhone.
How can I get 2017 code on my phone.
kwired
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- EC
Though some paid versions had better navigation features (at least ones designed to run on PC's) there is always NFPA's free access on their website, but navigation features are very limited. Mostly is just links to go to beginning of the major sections then have to scroll/page to all other subsections. Can't copy or paste anything from this either, but you do have pretty much every edition they ever published available. That at least comes in handy for looking up what may have been requirements at a particular time.
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- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Buy the PDF version and put it on your phone or find someone to share it with you.
Do you have a link
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
Select either the handbook or the code, then select the year, and then select PDF
petersonra
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- Northern illinois
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If you are on 2020, you are out of luck on PDF since they chose not to offer it in PDF form, probably to stop people from "sharing" it.
kwired
Electron manager
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- NE Nebraska
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- EC
You could always put in some significant time and make screen shot of every page from the free online version
wwhitney
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- Berkeley, CA
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- Retired
There are some online articles on how to automate having your browser fetch every page and save the images and then turn them into a PDF. Took me a couple hours to do for the 2020 NEC.You could always put in some significant time and make screen shot of every page from the free online version
Cheers, Wayne
here is a link to all the codes https://up.codes/codes/new_york
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- Bremerton, Washington
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- Master Electrician
NEC is copyrighted we can not encourage sharing it as that would present a liability to Mike Holt
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Strombea
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I was able to get this app on iPhone. It is awesome to navigate, I use it everyday. I went to App Store to find it and I can't. It won't even let me share the link. So.... you may be stuck with PDFs
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
That went away after the 2017 edition. It is all NFPA LiNK now...a subscription service with a monthly or yearly fee. There will be no PDFs for any code after the 2017 from the NFPA.
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