|  | | | | | The National Electrical Code (NEC) updates every three years and it's important for electrical professionals to stay on top of the changes in each Code cycle. That's why EC&M has teamed up with longstanding NEC Consultant Mike Holt to update our readers on the key changes made during the latest Code cycle. |
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| | | In Episode 20 of “EC&M Tech Talks,” Randy Barnett, a journeyman electrician, inspector, author, trainer, and electrical safety expert, provides an overview of the changes to the 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC). |
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| | | We have an acute shortage of skilled workers in most trades, and the electrical trade is among the hardest hit. The mechanics trade isn’t far behind. These two trades make the core of most maintenance departments. Unless your circumstances are very unusual, you can’t solve the people shortage by hiring the right people to fill the slots that need f... |
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| | | You were sent out on a residential job to replace incandescent can lights with LED can lights and to install LED-compatible dimmers. The kitchen and living room were no problem, but when you opened the breaker indicated (on the panel directory) for the bathroom lights, the lights stayed on. The homeowner doesn’t want you to just flip breakers until... |
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| | | Article 430, Part XIII provides the NEC requirements for motor grounding. This is a problem because motors are loads, not power sources. Therefore, they are bonded, not grounded. There is, in fact, nothing in Part XIII about grounding. Does this seem confusing? What is meant here is bonding; more specifically, equipment bonding. |
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| | | EC&M and Electrical Wholesaling’s editors share the industry insights and knowledge that they observed at this year's NECA Trade Show and Convention in Austin, Texas. |
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| | | Many people who understand that it’s a team assignment believe their role is to report violations to management. However, reporting doesn’t always result in solutions to poor attitudes, training deficiencies, equipment defects, inadequate procedures, and other problems that result in gravity-related safety violations. Your reporting responsibilitie... |
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| | | A money pig is a pool of cost that is big relative to other costs in its category or in general. Manufacturing plants stopped stockpiling every conceivable spare part for things that rarely fail or cost a lot of money to stock. Another cost that many plants started cutting is maintenance labor. The result is the maintenance department appears to op... |
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| | Advertisement | Register now for EC&M’s 2-day Code Change Conferences! Two locations: Seattle and Boston! |
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| | | NEC Chapter 4 describes requirements related to equipment for general use, things you use every day. Article 400 covers the specific uses of cords and cables that can prevent the transmission of noise and vibration to general-use appliances and electrical equipment. Article 408 covers the equipment that houses overcurrent protective devices, buses,... |
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| | | In Episode 2 of “EC&M Asks,” our subject matter expert Tommy Northcott, P.E., a senior power engineer and branch manager for Jacobs Technology, Inc., answers reader-submitted questions regarding arc flash hazards, what type of PPE to wear, and information regarding arc flash calculations. |
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| | | Fill in the blank. Portable distribution and termination boxes installed outdoors at carnivals, circuses, or fairs shall be weatherproof and mounted so the bottom of the enclosure is not less than _____ above the ground. |
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