Wgoodrich
February 4th, 2006, 04:35 PM
The following is written by a person also including the author giving him credit for his writing. Kind of ironic and irritating but so true;
Concerning the text of the NEC:
It doesn’t say what you think it says, nor what you remember it to have said, nor what you were told that it says, and certainly not what you want it to say, and if by chance you are its author, it doesn’t say what you intended it to say. Then what does it say? It says what it says. So if you want to know what it says, stop trying to remember what it says, and don’t ask anyone else. Go back and read it, and pay attention as though you were reading it for the first time.
Copyright 2006, Charles E. Beck, P.E., Seattle WA.
You can find this printed also on the NEMA web site under ask Mike and on our IAEI/Indiana web site.
This link is to a source of questions and answers answered by panelists at IAEI seminars. These panelists are experts but sometimes also disagree with interpretation. Great source of reading those questions and answers.
http://www.nema.org/stds/fieldreps/askMikeForister/
This link is to another web site I am the web master for. I also have been recently elected as the Indiana president for the IAEI. An update should be showing on this web site in the next week or so showing the latest question and answers for the IAEI Indiana Chapter seminar we just held last week. The questions hopefully will be appearing there from that seminar from the panelist listed on that web site for the year we just had in Lafeyette, Indiana.
http://www.iaei.org/Indiana/
After you read it a time or two it is actually calming to those frustrated in trying to interpret the Code rules as written.
Hope you enjoy
Wg
Concerning the text of the NEC:
It doesn’t say what you think it says, nor what you remember it to have said, nor what you were told that it says, and certainly not what you want it to say, and if by chance you are its author, it doesn’t say what you intended it to say. Then what does it say? It says what it says. So if you want to know what it says, stop trying to remember what it says, and don’t ask anyone else. Go back and read it, and pay attention as though you were reading it for the first time.
Copyright 2006, Charles E. Beck, P.E., Seattle WA.
You can find this printed also on the NEMA web site under ask Mike and on our IAEI/Indiana web site.
This link is to a source of questions and answers answered by panelists at IAEI seminars. These panelists are experts but sometimes also disagree with interpretation. Great source of reading those questions and answers.
http://www.nema.org/stds/fieldreps/askMikeForister/
This link is to another web site I am the web master for. I also have been recently elected as the Indiana president for the IAEI. An update should be showing on this web site in the next week or so showing the latest question and answers for the IAEI Indiana Chapter seminar we just held last week. The questions hopefully will be appearing there from that seminar from the panelist listed on that web site for the year we just had in Lafeyette, Indiana.
http://www.iaei.org/Indiana/
After you read it a time or two it is actually calming to those frustrated in trying to interpret the Code rules as written.
Hope you enjoy
Wg
