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That's just the way things work. Good luck fighting the court.
Your honor, claimant added wires between outlets in direct violation of Nat ional Electric Code. This may or may not have caused the fire. It is up t o the claimant to prove that it did not cause the fire. Furthermore, it is up to the claimant to prove that there were no other such violation elsewh ere.
There's a youtube vid that found out how much difference it made taking wires out through different holes in a metal CU. The resultant heating was 2C at 118A.
er than running wires from different rooms. Both are CODE VIOLATIONs anywa y.
More stuffs for you to read:
2014 NEC Article 400.8 You may not use as a substitute for permanent wiring or run cord through wa lls or floors.
HS04-014A (1-06) Don?t plug one extension cord into another. Don?t run extension cords through doorways, holes in ceilings, wall s, or floors.
The purpose of this national electric code is to reduce the use of extensio n cords. From any point along a wall line, a receptacle outlet needs to be within reach of a 6-ft. appliance cord, and that 6 ft. cannot be measured a cross a passageway. The bottom line is that extension cords start fires and create tripping hazards ? the fewer extension cords, the better.
Extension cords must not be used as a replacement for standard electrical w iring for a building. Never use an extension cord where it is put through a hole or opening in a wall, inside a dropped ceiling or under flooring. It is against the National Electrical Code to connect extension cord wiring th rough doorways or other structural openings like windows.
For safety in workplace environments, OSHA demands that extension cords not be used for more than 90 days even as a temporary wiring solution. Daisy c hains -- multiple extension cords connected to each other and/or into a mul tiple outlet extension such as a surge protector -- are also against OSHA r egulations. Power strips that are equipped with self-contained fuses can be used as a permanent solution for extension purposes. All equipment must ha ve OSHA-certified approval.
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I haven't been following along. But when the power fails, I switch off from the line, and then plug my generator into my house, and use the fuse/breaker box to run different stuff... furnace, frig, coffee maker. The frig and furnace are on different AC lines so I've gotta plug in at different points. I don't use any switches*, but I do have a double male three prong plug, that's probably illegal somewhere.
As I understand it, in order for a "generator to home wiring" setup to be legal, you need to use a real transfer switch - one which makes it physically impossible to have both the generator, and the incoming mains feed, hooked up to the house wiring simultaneously.
The way you're (apparently) doing it, it would be possible for you to accidentally try to back-power the mains... if you fail to open some of the breakers (individual-circuit or the main disconnect) or if somebody inadvertently tries to "reset a tripped breaker" under these conditions. A cross-connect of that sort could easily kill someone.
At the very least, if you're going to do this, I'd think it a good idea for you to have a "lockout padlock" that you use to close the breaker box after you open the main disconnect and the individual circuit breakers. That would, at least, prevent some "helpful" individual from reconnecting the line while the generator is powered up.
40 volts at a home or business that doesn't have 240 volt outlets is to pic k off two outlets that are wired to separate circuits on opposite sides of the 240 volt power. There is a commercial product for this and designs on the web. I found this schematic.
s the issue is that without the input relays when you plug the unit into on e outlet the path through the output relay coil can energize an exposed plu g pin. But I don't see the need for two poles. Running the 120 volt conne ction through the input relay contacts on just one side of the output relay coil will prevent the two inputs from being energized when only one is plu gged in.
ly advantage I can see is that with the two pole relays a single stuck cont act won't be dangerous. In a one pole approach it can pass a dangerous vol tage to the input plug pin. But you can hear relays working so a stuck rel ay can be detected. Also it has indicators on the inputs so you can tell t he relay isn't clicking because of a failure rather than simply no voltage. So this risk seems minimal.
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I guess it is a good thing that small loop antennas are very poor radiators . At 60 kHz a loop this size is a tiny fraction of a wavelength in circumf erence and so a very poor radiator. At 60 Hz the radiation is incredibly p oor. The area of this loop is *far* smaller than the loops created by the power lines running in my neighborhood much less the huge loops the main po wer lines use. I believe they are spaced so wide that you could fit my hou se between the wires. So the impact of the functionally small loop area of this device would be totally inconsequential.
Rick C.
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