Then why are you asking here?
Making sure I understand what's going on. This is a cord that comes installed on a piece of equipment and this equipment has a listing from an approved listing company, and you and the AHJ have decided that the listing company missed a violation of the NEC which I believe does not cover equipment. Is that about right?
Nor is it a manufacturing guide, not does it give instructions on how best to alter a manufactured piece of equipment or grant forgiveness when one does so.
That's not what I said. What I said was the NEC sizes its conductors based on very conservative criteria because it doesn't know what loads are involved in every application that might be possible. Manufactureres size their conductors based on an actual known application and use.
I've spent my life in the trades, never once heard anyone say "We put safety second". If you've got a billion dollars to spend you can call the manufacturer and have a custom made unit.
This begs the question: If this is a $1.5B plant and the client is not worried about paying twice, why are you even spec'ing/buying a "lowest possible cost" pump which you and the PE/AHJ client have determined is "not a good design" from a "cheap-ass" vendor?
Now that is a difficult position, I feel for you.
That's a little harsh. We were having a discussion.Isaiah appears intent on hearing only what he wants to hear and injecting his words into other people's mouths, despite what the person actually wrote. It also appears he's here only for validation of decisions he's already made. I wonder why he bothers.
