Dead wire has to be marked at both ends now or removed, that was in nec. Most municipalities defer to nec as adopted, so for the flammable on racks have them show you the specific code so you can verify compliance. That sound more like fire code than electric code and that you go buy a case of whatever the local fire chief drinks cause he can make or break you
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 7:46 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > THHN. And we learned that the fire code for pallet racks is proportional > to square footage. We think we are in the lowest group so almost no rules > by our reading. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 12, 2023, at 5:50 PM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On 1) it’s common practice to wirenut the conductors together on the dead > wire. Then if someone got confused later and energized it they’d > immediately pop their breaker. That’s safer than having someone > accidentally put 208V into a wire hanging in the middle of nowhere. I > can’t imagine why it would be cited as “junction box without cover”. > > What type of wire is it? Something like an SJOW coming out of a box? > Maybe put a twist-lock socket on the end of it and re-energize it. Now > it’s an outlet. > > > > (2) might not be a misunderstanding. NFPA has definitions for various > classes of flammable materials, and depending on what you’re storing it > might not be that you *can’t* put flammable items on the racks, rather > you might be required to have a sprinkler system in order to do so. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown via AF > *Sent:* Monday, June 12, 2023 6:17 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Cc:* ch...@go-mtc.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT NEC > > > > Got gigged by the fire department today on a couple items. > > > > 1) Hand coil of wire up in the ceiling over a spot where a machine used > to be. Not gonna cut it off as some other machine may go there. It is > coiled and cut dead and capped in the breaker panel. They are quoting a > junction box without a cover and saying I guess I have to mount a big assed > box up there to enclose this dead wire? Opinions. > > > > 2) Nothing flammable on our pallet racking. Every warehouse I have > ever been has pallet racking full of things in corrugated boxes. Having a > hard time buying this. So we can only store steel and rocks up there. > They do say we can put our non flammable items on a pallet.... Anyone ever > run across this before? > > > > Best Regards, > Chuck McCown > > McCown Technology Corporation > 8401 N Commerce Dr > Lake Point, Utah 84074 > 801-250-9503 Office > 435-830-4306 Cell > www.mccowntech.com > www.microtrench.pro > www.terabitnetworks.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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