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Mark C. Ode, staff engineering associate at the Underwriters Laboratories Inc. in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Regulatory Services Department, was a senior electrical specialist for the National Fire Protection Association. He is a former staff liaison and secretary to the NFPA Electrical Equipment in Chemical Atmospheres Committee. He was the executive secretary for the NFPA Electrical Section and editor of the Electrical Section news bulletin, Current Flashes. He has taught the National Electrical Code throughout the United States. He is certified as an electrical instructor for the States of Wyoming, New Jersey, North Carolina, Michigan, and Massachusetts, as well as others. He is an electrical code columnist for Electrical Contractor magazine.
He was a principle member of CMP-20 for the 1990 NEC and an alternate member of CMP-3 for the 2002 NEC. He is a principle member of CMP-4, an alternate member of CMP-3, and an alternate on the NEC Technical Correlating Committee for the 2005 NEC. He has been a member of IAEI since September 15, 1975.
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Article 411 was established during the 1996 National Electrical Code (NEC) cycle to provide a separate article for low-voltage lighting systems designed and listed as a complete system. The primary reason for Article 411 was the development of a new system of low-voltage incandescent spot lighting. These new low-voltage incandescent spot lighting systems are installed [...]