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Errata

Thanks primarily to the alertness of reader James D. Robinson, the following errata have been identified so far. Text to be removed is struck out below; text to be added is underlined.

Page 50, paragraph 4, lines 9-10: "gray–genuine gray–for the 480Y/277 system, but this has beenwas a Code violation since adoption of the 1971 NEC–until finally accepted in the 2002 NEC.
Page 116, paragraph 4, lines 11-12: “. . . the requirement to use handle ties on multiwire circuits’ neutrals. to join individual circuit breakers that have been grouped to control multiwire circuits.
Page 116, paragraph 4, lines 13-14: Add a blank line before "For some time, . . ."
Page 124, Final line: "163154%"
Page 125, graf 3, line 3: "14256%"
Page 243, paragraph 3, line 1: "Even when boxes were recessed very deeply . . "
Page 248, paragraph 3, line 3: ". . . One suggestions is. . . "
Page 296, paragraph 4, line 9 (last sentence): “At that time, Joseph B. McCall . . .”
Page 297, paragraph 3, line 2: “. . . laws requiring thant any electrical . . . ”
Page 321: Please delete the second and third paragraphs, which are duplicative.
Page 341, paragraph 5, line 2, “. . . no-longer-legal. . . .
Page 357, First paragraph, line 6: “. . . pointed out that if he had been wrong . . .”
Page 384, line 2 "American Wire Gauge"
Page 389, line 6: "Institution of Electrical Engineers (as of 2006, IET, Institution of Engineering and Technology). British. . ."
Page 391, graf 5, line 2: ". . .Pi times the actual diameter squared, divided by four, to derive . . ."

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