Have a service change for a 800A 480v main and MCC for a city wellhouse. Was spec replace main gear on top of a gutter to splice onto the service conductors. With the height of the gutter and the new main panel on top. There is 500a breaker at the center of the handle is 6’8” It’s feeding a soft start then to the 350hp well pump. Does NEC 2017 240.24(4) apply.
(A) Accessibility. Switches containing fuses and circuit breakers shall be readily accessible and installed so that the center of the grip of the operating handle of the switch or circuit breaker, when in its highest position, is not more than 2.0 m (6 ft. 7 in.) above the floor or working platform, unless one of the following applies:
(1) For busways, as provided in 368.17(C).
(2) For supplementary overcurrent protection, as described in 240.10.
(3) For overcurrent devices, as described in 225.40 and 230.92.
(4) For overcurrent devices adjacent to utilization equipment that they supply, access shall be permitted to be by portable means.
This soft start and well pump are no more than 10 ft away in the same room. This breaker is at 6’8” and inspector is making me lower it. Not that big of deal but will not give this code reference any thought whatsoever.
(A) Accessibility. Switches containing fuses and circuit breakers shall be readily accessible and installed so that the center of the grip of the operating handle of the switch or circuit breaker, when in its highest position, is not more than 2.0 m (6 ft. 7 in.) above the floor or working platform, unless one of the following applies:
(1) For busways, as provided in 368.17(C).
(2) For supplementary overcurrent protection, as described in 240.10.
(3) For overcurrent devices, as described in 225.40 and 230.92.
(4) For overcurrent devices adjacent to utilization equipment that they supply, access shall be permitted to be by portable means.
This soft start and well pump are no more than 10 ft away in the same room. This breaker is at 6’8” and inspector is making me lower it. Not that big of deal but will not give this code reference any thought whatsoever.