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Are you ready for the changes? Starting on 12/31/2020 the “2017 NEC” goes into effect.

12/31/2020  2017 NEC ADOPTED by the

FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISION!!!

New changes go into effect on 12/31/2020 any permit submitted on or after 12/31/2020 will be governed by the 2017 NEC.  I haven’t quite finished going through all the changes that I thought would affect us hear down in So Florida, but you can go back and review all the ones we have posted up until now.  So stay tuned for future Code Changes that could have an effect on your business ($$$).  We will start up again next week with more 2017 code changes.  Don’t get caught with your Code knowledge down,  buy a code book look it over check out the changes be aware of what’s happening in our trade, put down your 2008, 2011, 2014 code books. This is 2020 we are using the 2017 NEC.

On a sad note my mother in-law passed away this week at 97, Dorothy Ida Sordillo you will be missed.  It was Ida and her husband Joe who gave Darlene and myself a place to stay down here in Florida.  I thank them for giving us a new start in a new land. Joe passed away just a few months after we moved here in 1976, and if not for Ida we would have never made it down here. Ida would come and stay with us from time to time and I would listen to her tell all these stories about her family and Joe’s family. I will miss her and her stories.  Thanks for the stories and all your help through the years.

Till next time

Be safe work safe.

Jake

Happy Holidays be safe work safe.

The Leahy’s

Buss duct, sprinkler pipes and other electrical pipes didn’t stop her.

When pulling into a garage always read the signs there is usually a height maximum.

Due to Covid-19, we are suspending continuing education and exam prep classes until the social distancing and recommended mask guidelines are lifted. We will send an email when we are able update our class schedule. If you are not currently on our email list, please go to our website www.electricalcodeconnection.com and click on the contact tab to let us know that you would like to be notified when registration begins.

The State has reduced the number of continuing education hours you need to renew your license from 14 to 11 effective July 1, 2020.

We are all just in the holding pattern with this virus running around.  The class that I was just teaching had to be delayed due to the virus and the fact that the test sites are shut down.  So we sit and wait until we get the all clear message from the government, so we can go back to normal life.  Not sure we will ever get back to normal life. 

So this not so normal picture was sent to me this week by Glenn from Pt. St. Lucie.  The guys from class will appreciate this we just went over box fill about two weeks ago. 

It must have been a chore to get the switches in the box.  How many wires can you get in a box?

Till next time be safe work safe and maintain 6’ of space from the people around you.

Jake

Got a call from a local contractor and he told me that the inspector just turned him down for using Orange as a switch leg to a switched outlet.  I asked him what the reason was and he said the inspector told him that Orange could only be used for a high leg circuit.  I’m not sure where he got his information but I am unaware of this section in the Code book.  If anyone out there knows why it can only be used for the color of a high leg please send me an email.  Service was single phase in a residence.

I told the contractor to ask which section regulated this and will update you in the future.

Some great pictures from around the trade.

Must be a new size Grounding Electrode Conductor.

Got a call from a contractor stating that the inspector was requiring him to size an equipment ground in a feeder tap based on the feeder main and not the size of tapped main he was installing.  The inspector was correct that the equipment grounds installed with the feeder taps would have to be sized based on the feeder main and not the taps main.  This will only apply when a wire type equipment ground is installed, if you are using metal nipples as the equipment ground then this section does not apply.  In the picture that I used the nipples are metal because I could not find a picture with PVC nipples,  So if these nipples were PVC then the equipment grounds installed would have to be based on this section.  The last part of this section tells us that the equipment ground will not have to be larger than the tap conductors.

If you can not see the whole picture just click on it.

Got a question email me @ jleccemail@hotmail.com

Till next time be safe work safe.

Jake

Aaron,Darlene and Jake Leahy

This one was sent to me by my son Aaron.  He thought that I would like it, he was right!  I’ll never be able to look at a Safety Pin the same way again.  I’m not sure what they were feeding, but it is a different way of connecting loads to a branch circuit.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

Till next time be safe work safe.

Jake