Kessler4130
Senior Member
- Location
- Maryland
Hello all,
This is my first of what will be many posts, and after reading through pages and pages over the last 2 days, it is clear you all know your stuff. To better aquaint myself I am an electrician from Maryland I took my masters test a few months ago and my license is currently being proccessed in Baltimore as we speak
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Anyhow, my question may be stupid and I cannot say I have done all the research on it that I should have because my code book is in the company truck. Here is the scenario, there is a 5" ridgid lightpole roughly 20 ft high, we are putting a set of lights on it "bullhorns", and it was previously an unlighted sign so it has no feed and/or switch leg. Personally I would cut the asphalt and run a conduit or UF to it myself, but an associate "the boss" has intentions to run triplex from the building of probably a 30ft span to the light. Now I know @ NEC it states that only service drop conductors can be connected to a service mast, and I seriously doubt there is any chance of us achieving the required height for the drip loop without even adding a mast to the building. But for the sake of arguement lets assume we do not need a mast. I will flip through my book in the morning and see what I can dig up but due to the lack of time I wanted to see what everyone thought about the situation and what they would/would not do.
As far as terminations, I have not seen the inside of the building, the roof, nor the lights, so I appologize for the lack of information.
This is my first of what will be many posts, and after reading through pages and pages over the last 2 days, it is clear you all know your stuff. To better aquaint myself I am an electrician from Maryland I took my masters test a few months ago and my license is currently being proccessed in Baltimore as we speak
. Anyhow, my question may be stupid and I cannot say I have done all the research on it that I should have because my code book is in the company truck. Here is the scenario, there is a 5" ridgid lightpole roughly 20 ft high, we are putting a set of lights on it "bullhorns", and it was previously an unlighted sign so it has no feed and/or switch leg. Personally I would cut the asphalt and run a conduit or UF to it myself, but an associate "the boss" has intentions to run triplex from the building of probably a 30ft span to the light. Now I know @ NEC it states that only service drop conductors can be connected to a service mast, and I seriously doubt there is any chance of us achieving the required height for the drip loop without even adding a mast to the building. But for the sake of arguement lets assume we do not need a mast. I will flip through my book in the morning and see what I can dig up but due to the lack of time I wanted to see what everyone thought about the situation and what they would/would not do.
As far as terminations, I have not seen the inside of the building, the roof, nor the lights, so I appologize for the lack of information.
