SparkyAdam
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- Location
- Oregon
- Occupation
- Electrician/Small Business Owner
So we are doing a bunch of new sign installations in existing commercial bank buildings all over our state (OR). The new signs are LED and have an absolutely tiny load on them, as most LED signs do these days.
In reading 600.5, it seems to require these be installed on a dedicated circuit, but it also kind of is worded in a way that leads you to believe it is more for commercial new construction, which i would understand as the load of the sign would not necessarily be known, and it's not like it adds a lot of cost if the walls are all open anyway. But this just seems not to make a lot of sense in our situation, or really at all anymore if you ask me, LED signs have such a small load these days, its not like back in the day when signs had a really big load, everything is LED anymore and the loads are all really small.
Installing these signs as a dedicate circuit will more than quadruple the cost to the customer in some of these installations, while offering no difference in the end result what would you do here? I mean code is code i guess, but it just seems silly to me to charge a customer for a dedicated circuit when the load of the new sign isn't even a single amp.
In reading 600.5, it seems to require these be installed on a dedicated circuit, but it also kind of is worded in a way that leads you to believe it is more for commercial new construction, which i would understand as the load of the sign would not necessarily be known, and it's not like it adds a lot of cost if the walls are all open anyway. But this just seems not to make a lot of sense in our situation, or really at all anymore if you ask me, LED signs have such a small load these days, its not like back in the day when signs had a really big load, everything is LED anymore and the loads are all really small.
Installing these signs as a dedicate circuit will more than quadruple the cost to the customer in some of these installations, while offering no difference in the end result what would you do here? I mean code is code i guess, but it just seems silly to me to charge a customer for a dedicated circuit when the load of the new sign isn't even a single amp.
