Robert A. McCullough, is chairman of NEC CMP-09 representing the IAEI, member of UL Electrical Council, National Certification Program for Construction Code Inspectors Board of Governors and Electrical Test Development Committee, chairman of NFPA 501 Manufactured Housing Electrical Committee, Chairman of New Jersey State Electrical Subcode Committee and member of New Jersey State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors.
What’s big, gray, and should be approached carefully? If you answered “an elephant,” why are you reading an electrical book? If you answered “switchgear,” you’re probably a code weenie. Inpectors often ask, “What are the procedures for inspecting switchgear?” Like eating an elephant, the best approach is one bite at a time. Switchgear is one [...]
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The general theme for this month’s IAEI News is safety; and when most electrical people talk safety, they think of personnel safety and safety in the work place, OSHA and NFPA 70E. And why not, after all electricity is dangerous and if you’re not careful working with it you can get hurt. What sometimes is [...]
(No Ratings Yet)There are two kinds of people in the world, those who sit back and wonder what happened and those who stand up and make things happen. Make a difference—get involved!” With those words, Bob McCullough, the 80th president of IAEI, challenged those in attendance at IAEI’s Diamond Jubilee meeting in 2003, to become involved in [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Welcome to the Rodney Dangerfield of NEC articles! Irrigation machines? Most of you will labor your entire electrical careers without ever having seen one of these, let alone inspect or wire one. Back in 1973, proposal number 115 was submitted to code-making panel 11 by the Technical Subcommittee on Electrically Driven Center-Pivot Irrigator Systems. This [...]
(No Ratings Yet)One of the most fundamental elements of an electrical installation is the connecting of the wiring method to an overcurrent device. Seems simple right? All most people seem to do (including inspectors) is to look at Table 310.16 and match up the numbers to a fuse or breaker. Unfortunately the actual selection process can be [...]
(No Ratings Yet)If you answered the National Electrical Code, you would be partially correct. Manufactured housing has its own set of construction standards that are found in 24 CFR Part 3280. This came into being in response to the National Manufactured Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5403). These original rules were, for the [...]
(No Ratings Yet)I’m sure that all of you at one point or another have asked yourselves what is a manufactured wiring system. Well, maybe not all of you, but most of you…right? Well maybe not most, but some of you have… OK, so a couple of you have asked that question. The Code rules for manufactured wiring [...]
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