Our instructor advised us to read some of the NEC every day – perhaps while waiting for work to start. Not wanting to addle my brain with the convoluted parts, I read the index, the table of contents. One day, I read most of the page numbers. I read Appendix B. Running low of comprehensible material, I read a section at the front of the book which listed the members of the Code Making Panels and their affiliations.
And it struck me with a bolt of realization: All facets of the electrical industry are represented: contractors, manufacturers, insurance companies, professors, unions, even ABC! But there is one glaring exception. There are no apprentices on any of the panels. There must be a 100,000 of us apprentices out here. We are the aching backbone of the electrical industry. And we are not represented!
Therefore, I am forced to reluctantly forced to cast my yellow hard hat into the ring and proclaim my nomination for Apprentice Representative on the Code Making Panels. Mike Holt can’t do it because it would be a conflict of interest. Since his business is making the Code understandable, if he were on the panels, he would have to make the rules understandable which would put himself out of business.
But I am not faced with such contradictions. My campaign pledge is to clean up the Code.
I will eliminate the NEMA requirement that the edges of mud rings and boxes be razor sharp.
Since I have not been bribed yet, I will vote to ban AFCIs since they are unproven and provide a false sense of security. Same goes for occupancy sensors since they are a safety hazard. Who wants to be working on a live panel when the lights go off because the sensor decides you are working too carefully?
Table 300-5 will be changed to specify maximum burial depth. Furthermore, this distance shall be measured to the bottom of the trench. All references to two-phase systems shall be replaced with a footnote to refer the reader to previous editions of the Code since these systems are obsolete.
Section 220-19 [electric range calculation] is a sore point. Why quibble over ? of an amp when everything gets rounded off and guessed at and derated and uprated in the long run? There has to be a better way.
Following the example as laid out in the introduction to the third edition of Wastewater Engineering, I would revert back to real English units and consign those metrical units back to the parenthesis.
All references to the existence of stupid 1?” EMT and IMC will be quietly droped.
Above all, as a former member of the British Army, having attained the rank of Major, I will re-write the entire Code into plain English. I realize that that will make Mike Holt and even this wonderful forum redundant supervalous and unnecessary but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
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And it struck me with a bolt of realization: All facets of the electrical industry are represented: contractors, manufacturers, insurance companies, professors, unions, even ABC! But there is one glaring exception. There are no apprentices on any of the panels. There must be a 100,000 of us apprentices out here. We are the aching backbone of the electrical industry. And we are not represented!
Therefore, I am forced to reluctantly forced to cast my yellow hard hat into the ring and proclaim my nomination for Apprentice Representative on the Code Making Panels. Mike Holt can’t do it because it would be a conflict of interest. Since his business is making the Code understandable, if he were on the panels, he would have to make the rules understandable which would put himself out of business.
But I am not faced with such contradictions. My campaign pledge is to clean up the Code.
I will eliminate the NEMA requirement that the edges of mud rings and boxes be razor sharp.
Since I have not been bribed yet, I will vote to ban AFCIs since they are unproven and provide a false sense of security. Same goes for occupancy sensors since they are a safety hazard. Who wants to be working on a live panel when the lights go off because the sensor decides you are working too carefully?
Table 300-5 will be changed to specify maximum burial depth. Furthermore, this distance shall be measured to the bottom of the trench. All references to two-phase systems shall be replaced with a footnote to refer the reader to previous editions of the Code since these systems are obsolete.
Section 220-19 [electric range calculation] is a sore point. Why quibble over ? of an amp when everything gets rounded off and guessed at and derated and uprated in the long run? There has to be a better way.
Following the example as laid out in the introduction to the third edition of Wastewater Engineering, I would revert back to real English units and consign those metrical units back to the parenthesis.
All references to the existence of stupid 1?” EMT and IMC will be quietly droped.
Above all, as a former member of the British Army, having attained the rank of Major, I will re-write the entire Code into plain English. I realize that that will make Mike Holt and even this wonderful forum redundant supervalous and unnecessary but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Vote for Me
