NEC compliant?

[GG]

Any code violations here?

 

[iwire]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by GG:
Any code violations here?

 

[celtic]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by iwire:
It should be ground up.

 

[iwire]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by celtic:

Originally posted by iwire:
It should be ground up.


That is the coolest Graemlin yet.

 

[electricmanscott]

Re: NEC compliant?

A brick might be too light a sentence. Time for some real street justice.

 

[GG]

Re: NEC compliant?

I always forget to put the darn ground prong up.

[ August 06, 2005, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: GG ]

 

[starship]

Re: NEC compliant?

I know the what, but do not understand the why.
Why ground up?

 

[GG]

Re: NEC compliant?

I know the who, do you know the how?

 

[celtic]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by starship:
I know the what, but do not understand the why.
Why ground up?

You asked the question that dare not be asked!

Since you are new here, I suggest you hide under your desk until most of the carnage has passed.

 

[redfish]

Re: NEC compliant?

After it is turned ground up, don't forget to turn the switch right side up(or is it upside down).

 

[wbalsam1]

Re: NEC compliant?

I'm surprised I didn't see this device back in the Great Ice Storm in the mid-ninety's. I sure saw a lot of double-male-ended lead cords backfeeding indoor and/or outdoor receptacles connected straight from portable generators.

[ August 06, 2005, 08:36 PM: Message edited by: wbalsam1 ]

 

[ronaldrc]

Re: NEC compliant?

really you should at the very least have a lock for that switch

 

[electricmanscott]

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Yeah but what if a paper clip falls and lands accross the two prongs and shorts out or a metal plate was installed and that became loose and that fell too and then........

 

[wildman]

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can't tell, but which one of the blades is polarized? needs to be polarized!!

 

[mikeames]

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Is this someone playing games with photo shop??? Sometimes I have a hard time beleiving crazy pictures these days because anyone can make anything look anyway with time in photoshop.

 

[petersonra]

Re: NEC compliant?

actually, as long as the prongs are not energized i don't beleive it is a violation.

this is not all that uncommon an installation if you think about it.

normally you only see one male plug at a time done like this, but as long as they are not connected together, there is no reason this could not be a safe way to feed power from a cord into a device.

 

[arjo_reich]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by mikeames:
Is this someone playing games with photo shop??? Sometimes I have a hard time beleiving crazy pictures these days because anyone can make anything look anyway with time in photoshop.

look at the site listed on the image Joe KS -- Largest Source of Internet Humour!

 

[charlie b]

Re: NEC compliant?

Originally posted by starship: I know the what, but do not understand the why. Why ground up?

Please take a look at the FAQ thread within this NEC topic area.