trade or code?

[Greg Swartz]

While you may not have known the NEC, I'll bet that your Uncle Sam had other written regulations (codes) that you did have to know by heart.

To be totally honest, I just don't know.

I knew how to rip a generator apart, the entire diesel engine, the entire electrical theor on how the stator went to the engine and produced an electric field through a magnetic field.

I could have told you how to make the generator output more voltage, at a cost of amperage, (we even designed a Technical Manual for one...)

I found out the ampacity of most wires by searching for it, but I really don't know what manuals told me...
how to wire properly
what wires went where
how to put things in parallel
grounding
etc...

you know, the important stuff.

Although I remember taking a correspondence course back in 1992 about interior wiring... the only thing I remember is that recepts go 18" to center.

Go figure... (and I was in charge a lot too... uuuggghhh!)

 

[wireman]

While there is no doubt electricians who are running service trucks or on small projects should know the code rules, what about on a big job that has spec's and prints? How often have you heard electricians say "I don't need to know the code. It should be on the print."

If the spec's and prints say to put something in that is against code, is it the electrical contractor's (or electrician) job to catch it? The prints normally have a stamp on them etc.

 

[Brady Electric]

trade or code

trade or code

As usual Marc and Dennis hit it on the head. Of course they are the same thing, what good is knowing one without the other? Semper Fi. Buddy