First of all Happy Fathers days to all our fathers out there. Without you we would not be here.
We have been getting calls about our Continuing Education Classes, and we are going to run classes this fall in November instead of the summer this year, we had a lot of customers wanting to know when classes where going to be held so they could plan their vacation. So we decided to hold them in November. This is an off year because your license does not expire until 8/31/2020. You may have been notified by the County that your license needs to be renewed, if so you will be required to set up an account and download your certificate into your account. Send them your certificate from last years Continuing Education if you have one. If your a first timer you will not have a certificate to send them, and they will understand.
Back to the Code changes, Under the new Ground Fault protection requirements from 555.3 the feeder that feeds the Marina or Dock will now have to be Ground Fault protected with a 30mA device. Two changes occurred in this section one the protection went from 100mA down to 30mA for Ground Fault protection, and the other is it now included residential docks which not covered before by this section. It took a long time for the Code panels to realize that the residential boat docks were only covered by Article 210.8 in the Code. This Ground Fault protection is for the feeder only and you will still have to provide GFCI protection for boat lifts under 210.8(C), outlet protection under 210.8(A)(3) and 555.19(B)(1).
If you have questions send them to me at jleccemail@hotmail.com.
That’s all I have for today, Happy fathers day.
Jake