NEC app

[Shockedby277v]

Did the NFPA stop making the NEC app? I searched and searched and couldn’t find anything or even anything related. My iPad is strapped to my hip and 2011 is a bit obsolete to reference now.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

The only thing they have now is NFPA LinK ...a subscription service for about $100 per year....it includes almost all of the NFPA codes and standards.

 

[jaggedben]

You can create a login and view it for free at nfpa.org.

 

[Shockedby277v]

Bummer. This is horrible news. Having the NEC downloaded on my iPad is so convenient. I am working along the lakeshore of Lake Michigan and cell service is always bad. If I had to rely on downloading it won’t work as well. Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[texie]

Bummer. This is horrible news. Having the NEC downloaded on my iPad is so convenient. I am working along the lakeshore of Lake Michigan and cell service is always bad. If I had to rely on downloading it won’t work as well. Thanks for the replies guys.

Ah, you are missing a key benefit of NFPA Link. They actually allow you to download the NEC to your device if you need to as in your case.
I can say that after all the various electronic formats the NFPA have tried over the years that in various ways were failures, this product is pretty impressive. Since it is meant as a personal product they allow you to do many things such as bookmarking and highlighting as well as a number of good things.

 

[texie]

I might add that we better get used to all electronic formats as the hand writing is on the wall-paper copies of the various codes and standards that many of us use are going to disappear. It started with the UL White Book a few years ago and I see this accelerating. I feel sure that ICC, being the greenie org. that they are will move in this direction.
I have mixed feelings about this trend but I have to admit there are some great advantages to moving to all electronic publishing beyond saving trees. For starters, all the errata and TIAs in the NEC are automatedly in the NFP Link.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

I might add that we better get used to all electronic formats as the hand writing is on the wall-paper copies of the various codes and standards that many of us use are going to disappear. It started with the UL White Book a few years ago and I see this accelerating. I feel sure that ICC, being the greenie org. that they are will move in this direction.
I have mixed feelings about this trend but I have to admit there are some great advantages to moving to all electronic publishing beyond saving trees. For starters, all the errata and TIAs in the NEC are automatedly in the NFP Link.

That can be an enforcement problem. Just because the NFPA has adopted an issued a TIA does not make it locally enforceable. The TIAs must be legally adopted using the same process as was used to adopt the code itself. That is one of the reasons LinK shows them as TIAs and you can click and get back to the original language.

 

[texie]

That can be an enforcement problem. Just because the NFPA has adopted an issued a TIA does not make it locally enforceable. The TIAs must be legally adopted using the same process as was used to adopt the code itself. That is one of the reasons LinK shows them as TIAs and you can click and get back to the original language.

Good point. But I can sat that errata has become an issue in recent code cycles.