voltage220
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does anyone know if new york city follows national electric code or is it differant
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I am not sure what it is now, but in the 80's and 90's New York City had it's own Electrical Code that was significantly stricter that the NEC. Here are a couple of examples...
Aluminum rigid Conduit for all Fire alarm installations.
No penetraitions in the top of the Fire Alarm Panel. (Everything was routed through a wireway mounted at the bottom of the Panel.
No 1/2" conduit...3/4" minimum
No 4 square boxes...4 11/16 boxes only which the locals call a "five inch box"
Conduit supported with in 12'' of a box.
And I believe conduit was to be supported every 8' instead of 10'.
These are just some of the examples that I rememeber, and this was in Manhattan, I don't know about the other buroughs...Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens.
Aluminum rigid Conduit for all Fire alarm installations.
No penetraitions in the top of the Fire Alarm Panel. (Everything was routed through a wireway mounted at the bottom of the Panel.
No 1/2" conduit...3/4" minimum
No 4 square boxes...4 11/16 boxes only which the locals call a "five inch box"
Conduit supported with in 12'' of a box.
And I believe conduit was to be supported every 8' instead of 10'.
These are just some of the examples that I rememeber, and this was in Manhattan, I don't know about the other buroughs...Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens.
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It is an amended 2005 NEC http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/model/nec.shtml
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