My company builds smaller equipment enclosures around 4'x9'. The electrical system is pretty simple, 120/240 single phase service, 125amp panel with 2 pole 60 tied down and back fed as a main breaker, a 220v receptacle for an air conditioner, a 2000w wall heater, thermostat to run the a/c and heater, light fixture and a few recepts. The 120v piece of equipment is fed by a 3' whip of 14ga seow with a hubble cord connector at the end. All boxes are surface mounted and we use 1/2" EMT. We have a distributor in Canada who has purchased one unit with the promise of more to come if things go well. I have zero experience with Canadian electrical and am hoping you guys might be able to steer me toward a successful installation. I expect that we will need to purchase all CSA or ULc components but can I expect to install everything with the same methods as we would use in the US and be successful? If not what might I need to do differently? It's my understanding that the NEC and CEC are very similar but I'm sure that something will come up if I just go on that assumption. Thanks in advance for any help you guys are willing to give.
NEC vs Canadian
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cadpoint
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Try
www.csa.ca Cover page for the Assoc.
www.shopcsa.ca Cover page for the Assoc.
Or choose from your favorite search engine results, seems their active electrical code is 2009 & at around $160.00... (yikes)
www.csa.ca Cover page for the Assoc.
www.shopcsa.ca Cover page for the Assoc.
Or choose from your favorite search engine results, seems their active electrical code is 2009 & at around $160.00... (yikes)
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My experience is that they are very very close to the same, but CSA will require more grounding. For example I did some control panels using a Hoffman UL listed enclosures but the Canadian inspector insisted I add a grounding strap across all the enclosure doors, whereas UL apparently considers the hinge to be adequate.
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Here's some more information that based on research not real-life work!
UL
the UL has a lot of references to CSA Standards and Zone application.
And a comparison chart that up to date from one manufacture that makes wire for both NEC and CSA standards.
UL
the UL has a lot of references to CSA Standards and Zone application.
And a comparison chart that up to date from one manufacture that makes wire for both NEC and CSA standards.
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