440.1 does it apply to air handlers w/o hermetic refrigerant motor-compressor?

[DPW]

CODE:
440.1 Scope.
The provisions of this article apply to electric motor-driven air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment and to the branch circuits and controllers for such equipment. It provides for the special considerations necessary for circuits supplying hermetic refrigerant motor-compressors and for any air-conditioning or refrigerating equipment that is supplied from a branch circuit that supplies a hermetic refrigerant motor-compressor.

COMMENTARY:
Article 440 does not apply unless a hermetic refrigerant motor-compressor is supplied. Article 440 must be applied in conjunction with Article 430.

My question is, does Article 440 apply to an air handler (w/chill water coil) without any hermetic refrigerant motor-compressors installed within the air handler?

 

[augie47]

IMO, No.
Off hand I would think 422 would be the appropriate Article

 

[Smart $]

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My question is, does Article 440 apply to an air handler (w/chill water coil) without any hermetic refrigerant motor-compressors installed within the air handler?

No.

440.3 Other Articles.
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(B) Articles 422, 424, or 430. The rules of Articles 422,
424, or 430, as applicable, shall apply to air-conditioning
and refrigerating equipment that does not incorporate a hermetic
refrigerant motor-compressor. This equipment includes
devices that employ refrigeration compressors
driven by conventional motors, furnaces with air-conditioning
evaporator coils installed, fan-coil units, remote forced
air-cooled condensers, remote commercial refrigerators,
and so forth.