How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn’t identify? Here’s your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else’s work from the safety of your living room or office. Can you identify the specific Code violation(s) in this photo? Note: Submitted comments must include specific references from the 2014 NEC.
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Tell Them What They Have Won...
Using the 2014 NEC, correctly identify the Code violation(s) in this month’s photo — in 200 words or less — and you could win an Arlington Industries TVL508 Low Profile TV BOX. E-mail your response, including your name and mailing address, to [email protected], and Russ will select three winners (excluding manufacturers and prior winners) at random from the correct submissions. Note that submissions without an address will not be eligible to win.
August Winners
Our three winners this month were Tim Tran, an electrical plans examiner from Santa Monica, Calif.; Tony Borghese, a senior electrical designer for HBK Consultants of Westerville, Ohio; and Greg Dodds of Dobbs & Co. Electrical Contractors, Inc. of Decatur, Ala. They were each able to correctly identify the Code violations shown in this interesting photo, which was submitted to us by William Rattan, an electrical project manager from La Mesa, Calif.
Section 300.3(B) requires all conductors of the same circuit, including grounded conductors and equipment grounding conductors, to be contained in the same raceway or cable unless otherwise permitted in 300.3(B)(1) for parallel conductor installations; or 300.3(B)(2) for external grounding/bonding jumpers; or 300.3(B)(3) for conductors in nonmetallic wiring methods or a nonmagnetic sheath where installed in accordance with 300.20(B); or in accordance with 300.3(B)(4) for an auxiliary gutter installed between a panelboard and a pull box.
Another violation concern with 300.20(B) is there are no required slots cut in the steel enclosure between the holes where the individual conductors carrying alternating current pass through.
