Anyone have any recommendations on literature for new electrical designers that will step them through the NEC and other common points of design?
That's a pretty broad application. What are they going to be doing:
Residential?
Commerical buildings < = 2 stories?
Commerical buildings > 2 stories?
Industrial plants - process?
Industrial plants - mfg?
MV distribution?
on-site generation >400kw, or parallel gen/utility
These are all pretty different.
Also, the NEC is a list of minimum standards - it is not much of a design specification document.
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