Code Book Reading

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1stYearElectrican

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General question, Do you folks take a code book with you on job sites, or use it as reading material as your morning paper or take it to the lil boys room for some long term reading? Just curious as most of you post the codes rules very frequently and was wondering if you know the codes or have to refer to the book alot as I have to.

BTW Moderators I get a lil confused on where to post some questions, can a gereral forum be created? Hope I got this in the right section :smile:


~FyE~
 
I sometimes read the codebook like a normal person would read a novel. I have read it in many places mentioned above, I usually read it when waiting for an inspector or when im 'takin care of business'

You cant ever know too much!

~Matt
 
Some codes you refer too so often they become rote memory. Others we have to look up becuase we know it's there and what it says, but we don't remember the number.
 
keep one on the truck

keep one on the truck

I keep one on the truck. I never want to know the nec well enough to where I think I do not have to refer to it! That would be dangerous!:grin:
 
I keep the current softbound Code on the dash of the truck and the NEC Handbook on my office desktop computer. I also keep all my old Code books, and have even purchased versions on back before WWII.

I rarely have the language memorized, nor do I recall the exact number of the passage. But repeated lookups have taught me the arrangement of the book and I am likely to get in the right area, most times.

The more I lookup things, the better I get.
 
1stYearElectrican said:
General question, Do you folks take a code book with you on job sites,
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It's in the truck, anyone that says they don't need to look something up in the NEC once in while scares me. :smile:


or use it as reading material as your morning paper or take it to the lil boys room for some long term reading?
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No, but I spend a lot of time with it here.

Just curious as most of you post the codes rules very frequently and was wondering if you know the codes or have to refer to the book alot as I have to.
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I know quite a few sections but still look them up. I have 5 NECs within my reach right now, before I answer a question on this forum I look the sections up. Inevitably if I don't look the section up first I will end up putting my foot in my mouth. It never pays to shoot from the hip with code sections.




BTW Moderators I get a lil confused on where to post some questions, can a general forum be created?
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Doubt it. :)


Hope I got this in the right section :smile:
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No worries. :smile:

I will leave you with something our moderator Charlie B wrote. I think it is very good and I really try to apply it when reading a code section we are discussing on this forum.


Charlie’s Rule of Technical Reading

It doesn’t say what you think it says, nor what you remember it to have said, nor what you were told that it says, and certainly not what you want it to say, and if by chance you are its author, it doesn’t say what you intended it to say. Then what does it say? It says what it says. So if you want to know what it says, stop trying to remember what it says, and don’t ask anyone else. Go back and read it, and pay attention as though you were reading it for the first time.
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iwire said:
I will leave you with something our moderator Charlie B wrote. I think it is very good and I really try to apply it when reading a code section we are discussing on this forum.

Charlie’s Rule of Technical Reading

It doesn’t say what you think it says, nor what you remember it to have said, nor what you were told that it says, and certainly not what you want it to say, and if by chance you are its author, it doesn’t say what you intended it to say. Then what does it say? It says what it says. So if you want to know what it says, stop trying to remember what it says, and don’t ask anyone else. Go back and read it, and pay attention as though you were reading it for the first time.
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Thats great! I am going to send that to my dad, he is a software engineer and will appreciate the humor in that. :grin:

~Matt
 
I have the two smaller "pocket versions" for commercial and residential in the truck, and the full size book in my office. This forum encourages me to break it out when people hit topics that I run into.
 
1stYearElectrican said:
. . . .as it read like a code itself. :)
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:D
ROTFLMAO! ! !

To my mind, it's very zen.

"Original mind, Grasshopper, original mind."

Aummmmm.
 
1stYearElectrican said:
General question, Do you folks take a code book with you on job sites, or use it as reading material as your morning paper or take it to the lil boys room for some long term reading?
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I have never actually read the code book I have been waiting for the movie.



NEC, The Never Ending Story. :grin:
 
I keep one in the truck and @ the office,I try to reference it daily,and incourage others to do the same...
 
Always have one in the truck. I keep the handbook at home.

Does anyone use the handbook on CD-ROM? I was thinking about getting that for my laptop. I could see where it would come in handy.


Joe
 
05 at work desk
05 handbook at home
78 at home
08 handbook cd for laptop
plus ugly and various other references
and
70E seems to be open on desk all the time as we are finishing arc flash study followup, balancing loads, lowering fuses, etc.

i have charlie's tech posted on the wall of my office.:cool:
 
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