Location For Disconnects

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Read the code section and if I am wrong thean I guess that makes my Chief Building Official wrong and 14 other fellow electrical inspectors wrong. We make them move the disconects if they are behind the units. We don't care who did it.
 
marcb said:
What if the disconnect is located inside of the equipment. Ohhhhh thats not READILY ACCESSIBLE
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That's why equipment with internal disconnects that require tools to access must still have an external disconnect installed.
 
LarryFine said:
That's why equipment with internal disconnects that require tools to access must still have an external disconnect installed.
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I don't think so. I think there is an exception for that. I really don't think the regular clearances are required in front of a disco that does not have anything in them. I never pay much attention to where I put them and noone has said anything to me.
 
I`m going to bring up a subject that has been beaten to death in this forum.ENERGIZED EQUIPTMENT.If a disconnect has a breaker lock out then it is up to the service tech to use it.We supply it and it is there for them to use,regardless of the fact of being used.If it is not energized then 110.26 doesn`t come into play.All we can do is supply a safety device as in this case would be a breaker lock out.Now if there is an article in the NEC that says a disconnect must have a clear working space if NOT ENERGIZED then I would agree but there is no such article.Working space is for ENERGIZED equiptment.Show me otherwise and ill retract my statement.:)
 
I guess 110.26 is going to have a tough time convincing people it is a product of the consensus code doctrine.

C3 ????

Oh ! And if the disconnect location does not provide the minimum access requirements spelled out in 110.26, I ask the installer to move it.


just my 2 cents


Charlie
 
allenwayne,
If it is not energized then 110.26 doesn`t come into play.All we can do is supply a safety device as in this case would be a breaker lock out.
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The wording of 110.26(A) requires that there be safe work space where it is likely that the equipment will require examination, adjustment, servicing, or maintenance while energized. The existance of a breaker lock on the line side of the equipment does not change the likelyhood of this occuring and the workspace is required by the code rule. For the lockout to come into play 110.26(A) would need an exception that says the workspace is not required where a line side lockout point is provided. Until the time that the code wording is changed, any and all equipment that is likely to be worked on while energized requires safe work space.
Don
 
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Dirk,
Yes I did. Article 440. I'm done with this thread. Too many incorrect interpretations.
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440 is an Article, not a code section, but it would be nice if you were done this this forum.
Don
 
It amazes me that the simple statement "This section is flawed and in need of revision" can't be accepted as a truth on the matter, whether you think a AC disconnect requires three feet or three inches.

That's a hallmark of a fool with his head in the sand, IMO.
 
don_resqcapt19 said:
Dirk,

440 is an Article, not a code section, but it would be nice if you were done this this forum.
Don
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Yes it is. Why should I be done with the forum? Is it bedause I am level headed and interpret the code properly? Just because you disagree with someone, they should just go away? I don;t think so. Maybe if you're so negative you should just go away.... Hehehehehe
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Why should I be done with the forum?
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Well Bill McDowell it may be because you said in post 132 you where done with this thread.

Dirk Digger said:
I'm done with this thread.
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Is it bedause I am level headed and interpret the code properly?
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No that is not it.

Perhaps it is because I know you are registered here under at least three member names, perhaps more.

Dirk Diggler

marcb

McDowellb


Just because you disagree with someone, they should just go away?
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No, not at all. We have many people here that disagree, heck Don, Charlie and I rarely agree.

What we don't do is lie and try to BS each other.

As long as you posting under multiple member names, most times to back up your own postings you will have no respect here.

It is sad that an **** inspector has the mind of a 13 year old internet troll.
 
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