Yep.  I think I will put a bag over it to see if they notice next time.  

From: [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 12:50 PM
To: 'Chuck McCown' 
Cc: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: RE: [AFMUG] OT NEC

Ah….so you removed a conduit that dropped down to the machine and coiled up the 
THHN.  I probably would have done the same thing and just capped it off with 
wire nuts, but I can imagine someone seeing THHN outside of a conduit and 
fussing about it.

 

 

From: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 8:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT NEC

 

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.

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  On Jun 12, 2023, at 5:50 PM, [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF
  Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:17 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected]
  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
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