Reputable manufacturers go to great effort to acquire certification to demonstrate the safety of their products. However, less reputable manufacturers may forego testing and certification, using counterfeit marks to give the illusion that their products are on par with competitive products, when in fact, they could be dangerous and of unknown quality.
Perhaps more than any other Code revision cycle in recent memory, there were a significant number of changes to the 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC)® that will have a dramatic effect on the residential construction environment.
It’s important for installers and inspectors to fully grasp the scopes of the NESC and NEC, how and where each of them applies and the point of demarcation where one code yields to the other.
New 2020 NEC Requirement Helps Keep First Responders Safe from Electrical Hazards during Emergencies
New requirements in Section 230.85 for emergency disconnecting means for one- and two-family dwelling units to help keep first responders safe from electrical hazards during emergencies.
The 2020 edition of the NEC addresses many of the electric shock hazard concerns addressed by the 2017 edition and subsequent Tentative Interim Amendments (TIA)s concerning electric-shock drowning (ESD).
GFCI is one area of NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code® (NEC®), that the electrical industry can count on learning something new each revision cycle.
It is imperative that the NEC evolves to engulf these innovative techniques. With that backdrop in mind, this article will look at some of the more noteworthy changes that are being proposed for the 2020 NEC.
The CE Code is a comprehensive document. Sometimes it can seem quite daunting to quickly find the information you need. This series of articles provides a guide to help users find their way through this critical document.
For more than a decade, users have deployed permanent electrical safety devices (PESDs) to reduce the risks in isolating electrical energy. This elegantly simple innovation increases the probability that workers are exposed only to “zero voltage” when doing an absence-of-voltage test.