I am a fairly new inspector and was curious on what your interpretation of inspecting equipment is. A specific example is the electrician is running power for a 30A 208V receptacle for a customer who is purchasing a piece of equipment to plug into this receptacle. Am I correct in saying I cannot complete a final inspection on the installation until the equipment that is being plugged in is on site so I can inspect it for its listing?
Inspecting Equipment Prior to Energizing
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ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
I have no control as to what is plugged into a receptacle. That is not my concern. Nor should it be yours. I've been called back, because something didn't work but as long as I properly installed what was specd, I charge out the return call.
Thanks for the info. I guess I should clarify that I work at a University and a discussion was made that anything that can be plugged into a 120V receptacle is not of our concern, but anything that has "specific" power requirements for an electrician to come install is.
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Nothing in the NEC about that. You could make it a university policy but it is not a code issue if you're only inspecting the circuit/receptacle installation.
rc/retired
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I agree with Roger, ptonsparky and infinity.
Ron
Ron
growler
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I think the key word here is "installation". It's vey hard to install a piece of equipment that's not on site and just as hard to inspect it.
If you are responsible for the correct "installation" of a piece of equipment it would be a good idea to make sure that the listing is correct. Wrong equipment shows up all the time ( at least not exactly what the owner thought they were getting).
Jerry Solar
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Each piece of hard wired equipment connected to an electrical source must have a testing laboratory label. (UL or whatever) and it would be within your scope of work to verify the equipment has this label for the installation to be compliant.
A piece of equipment that is connected to the source via a receptacle should not be within your scope of work. Your responsibility stops at the receptacle.
A piece of equipment that is connected to the source via a receptacle should not be within your scope of work. Your responsibility stops at the receptacle.
Knuckle Dragger
Master Electrician Electrical Contractor 01752
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- Marlborough, Massachusetts USA
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- Electrical Contractor
I typically do not plug in anything that I didn't purchase myself.
I don't energize equipment that I didn't purchase myself.
Unless asked to by the owners of the equipment with a warning from me that I am not responsible for that equipment.
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