Question for Tennessee Electricians

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Originally posted by georgestolz:

"Hey, Jack! You got my cable cutters?"
"Nope."
"Dang! I can't cut this SER without my cutters!"
"Hey, at least we remembered to bring this 1000' spool of SER."
"Well, I guess you know what needs to be done. You feed, I'm going to run 86 laps though the attic until we get to the end of this roll."
"Good call. While you're doing that, I'll call the supply house to get us a roll out for the next house..."

I mean, come on. :D

[ November 05, 2005, 09:54 AM: Message edited by: jeff43222 ]
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Yeah obviously nobody with a brain would do this but the way its written you could. Just pointing out the lack of clarification on this section. :)
 
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Section 230.70(A)(1) requires the disconnecting means to be located at a readily accessible location either outside of a building or inside nearest the point of entrance of the service conductors. There is no length limitation for service conductors other than that there must be a disconnect and overcurrent protection "nearest the point of entrance of the service conductors". Once the conductors leave the service disonnect and overcurrent device, they are "feeders" for which there is no length limitation inside the building or structure.
There were many Code Proposals submitted to place maximum length for service conductors within the building, but they all failed and the decision is up to the common sense of the AHJ.
 
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Thanks, inspectors, for your replies. Here in my middle Tennessee area the inspectors are enforcing the 2 foot rule. I don't have a problem with this, but on the job I just did, I had no prior knowledge of this rule. I followed the NEC, checked with the local power company, and also checked out the section on 'Electrical Installations' on the Tennessee.gov website under the Dept. Of Commerce and Insurance. Nothing there indicated that this was a requirment. I guess what I'm getting at is that the state should either put all rules for electrical installs on the website or publish a booklet for electricians in the state so that we will all be playing on a level field. If rules and regs are not in writing its not reasonable to expect them to be followed and, I would think, hard to enforce.
 
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" honey, about those guys converting the garage to a den" or
"I hooked it up just like the guy at Home Depot said to"
:)

[ November 08, 2005, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: augie47 ]
 
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I know what most are thinking well thats a 300 KVA feeding an apartment complex.Yes a 300KVA 33KV primary fed with a bare #2 copper primary same thing that is on the pole at your house of course your transformer is more like a 12 or 15 Kva but once the transformer is a cooked it is just a large carbon resistor conducting 7200 volts over to your house. :) :eek:

http://home.comcast.net/~ronaldrc/wsb/media/746683/site1131.wmv

This picture is a 300 KV line being interrupted.

[ November 08, 2005, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: ronaldrc ]
 
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