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Is this phrase in the NEC, or is it just a commonly used phrase that has no official status?
"Made Electrode"
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Not an nec term. Aren't all electrodes made, or do some just appear?
LarryFine
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I believe that electrodes like water pipes and Ufer grounds are electrodes that "just appear" because they exist for other reasons, while rods and plates are examples of made electrodes that are added just for the purpose.
hillbilly1
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Seems like it was in the past, haven’t looked lately. There were size and thickness specifications at one time.
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OK. Thanks.
al hildenbrand
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Well, "made electrode" may well not be in the enforceable body of the NEC, but it IS an index item, and has been for many Code cycles, that refers specifically to 250.50, 250.52.
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It was in the 1999 code. Section 250-52(a)(2)
That language is not in the 2002 code, so I think the 99 code is the last time "made electrode" was used in the NEC.
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And even then it was used but not defined?
al hildenbrand
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As are many terms even in today's Code.
What's adding a little complexity here is the actual use of "made electrode" historically and the continued use in the Index since the 2002. "Made electrode" is more then trade slang.
I don't see the two-word term in the NFPA Glossary of Terms.
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No real definition, but the use in the section kind of defined it..."rod, pipe or plate type".
Back when I was teaching grounding, I would just say an electrode that is installed by the electrician. All of the other electrodes are installed by other trades.
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I see that not as a list of all possible types of made electrodes, but rather a specification of a rule that applies only to those types of made electrode..
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Thanks everyone. I asked because I was participating in a design review meeting, and saw that one reviewer saw the phrase "made electrode" and commented that this was a typo. They said the intended phrase was "main electrode." I informed the reviewer that this was not a typo, but I wanted to know if the phrase had any official meaning. I could not find it in the 2020 NEC, the only edition that I have at my "home office."
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