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National Fire Protection Association ^ | 01/01/2023 | National Fire Protection Association

Posted on 04/12/2023 12:13:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Education; Reference
KEYWORDS: buildingcode; electric; nec; wiring
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To: familyop

I like a book myself.

I think it is about $100.


21 posted on 04/12/2023 12:42:06 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Building codes for safety are fine.

Wish list building requirements lead to problems for human beings.


22 posted on 04/12/2023 12:43:31 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: scrabblehack

Poor Violet. Badly Burnt Resistors On Your Ground Bus Void General Warranty.


23 posted on 04/12/2023 12:43:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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To: MtnClimber

Same thing (and much worse) in India.


24 posted on 04/12/2023 12:47:01 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: scrabblehack

you forgot run get some now


25 posted on 04/12/2023 12:47:04 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Gaffer
Same thing (and much worse) in India.

Maybe they won't miss a few people here and there. Just float them down the Ganges River.

26 posted on 04/12/2023 12:51:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Brian Griffin

A standard 15A-1P or 20A-1P breaker is $4-$5.

AFCI takes that to $50-$60! Times the number of receptacle and lighting circuits in your house. It gets into some money.


27 posted on 04/12/2023 12:51:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Not true. Only one Life fault detector / breaker needed per circuit.


28 posted on 04/12/2023 1:00:51 PM PDT by IC Ken (If the government can just print Money why do I have to pay taxes?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The NFPA is a private organization ??

Maybe that is what it is supposed to be but after the Marshall fire In Colorado many people were under insured and when the new electrical standards especially the mandatory of $30,000 electrical charging stations many found that they lost their home but it was impossible to rebuild. Colorado is number four in electrical vehicles at just over 2%. This is ridiculous.

29 posted on 04/12/2023 1:06:59 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: scrabblehack

Resistor colors. Learned that one in Tech Elec 1 back in 9th grade.


30 posted on 04/12/2023 1:08:00 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: IC Ken

OK?

That price is fairly recent. I’ve collected materials for a small project, I bought 5-6 a few months ago.

And you need one AFCI breaker per circuit.

My statement holds.

Have you ever stamped any electrical work?


31 posted on 04/12/2023 1:14:14 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

In my engineering career I designed a lot of industrial equipment that relied on the NEC. Never saw anything that didn’t make good sense. My retirement BOL needed rewiring (originally built 1946 - they didn’t even run any grounds at all). Despite being so rural that we still have no building codes, I followed the NEC anyway. Cost me nothing to do it right.

Now, if you want to talk about low-flow toilets and Energy-Star dishwashers and laundry machines, I’m ready.


32 posted on 04/12/2023 1:14:36 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: FreedomPoster
RE> Times the number of receptacle and lighting circuits in your house

You own words.

33 posted on 04/12/2023 1:28:23 PM PDT by IC Ken (If the government can just print Money why do I have to pay taxes?)
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To: babygene
"Get (gold) some (silver) now (none)"

I have no tolerance for that!

34 posted on 04/12/2023 1:30:36 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
I relied on Practical Wiring for Home and Farm when I wired an add-on garage and breezeway. The town "inspector of wires" was named Birdseye. A very decent and practical individual, inspection fee $25 dollars at convenient hours.

When I was working as an Air Force contractor supporting an upgrade to the E-3 AWACS we had a meeting with about 25-35 people in attendance. We were writing the equipment specification and I asked for help with electrical power interface requirements. No one there was much help. One person figuratively threw a 1,000 page specification at me. Which I could have included by reference, punting the problem to the equipment developer. (Who had a lot of experience on the E-3.) I never felt comfortable specifying something I did not understand.

35 posted on 04/12/2023 1:31:12 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Resistor colors. Learned that one in Tech Elec 1 back in 9th grade."

Right! And I learned that resistors don't work any more after you let the smoke out of them.

36 posted on 04/12/2023 1:33:04 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: IC Ken

Ooo-kay?


37 posted on 04/12/2023 1:35:01 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Low flow toilets. Don’t get me started. Over the last 30 years I have had about seven. They use half the water per flush. The problem is that I never had one that I did not need to flush three times. Some required four. The refill rate was so slow that I have wasted a LOT of time standing and waiting to do the next flush. Oh how I wish I could give the greenies that pushed this a head swirly from flush 1 through flush 4.


38 posted on 04/12/2023 1:37:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Same for building codes, use them quite a bit. The pretty much ingrained in my head though


39 posted on 04/12/2023 1:42:20 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: scrabblehack

great sex...


40 posted on 04/12/2023 1:42:29 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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