702.8 intrpretation

[stew]

702.8 is the signage requirement for optional standby equipment. Do portable generators need this signage? It seems to me that only fixed in place equipment would be considered "on site". What say the code gurus?

 

[raider1]

I would say that you would still need a sign at the service equipment indicating that there is optional standby equipment that consists of transfer equipment and a portable generator.

Chris

 

[stew]

transfer equipment is located at the service panel. generator mite still be at home depot.

 

[raider1]

I think a strict read of 702.8(A) would require a sign, but maybe the inspector will permit the transfer equipment itself to be the "Sign".

Chris

 

[stew]

some of the add on transfer interlocks actually have a stick on placard with instructions.

 

[ceb58]

702.8 is the signage requirement for optional standby equipment. Do portable generators need this signage? It seems to me that only fixed in place equipment would be considered "on site". What say the code gurus?

From what I have been told by inspector gurus the words "on-site" are key. They require signage at the service equipment stating there is more than one power source and its location on the property of a permanently installed unit.

 

[stew]

my interpretation has always been that only permanetly installed units required signage . It depends upon what the interpretation of "on site" means i suppose