Table of Contents

 

About the Illustrations

 

Table of Illustrations

 

Notes on Authorship and Scope

 

Dedication

 

Preface

 

Introduction: NEC® Origin

 

Purpose

 

NEC® Chapter 1 Topics

 

What’s Considered Low Voltage?

 

Material Progress: Wood and Other Dated Materials

 

Installation & Use of Listed or Labeled Equipment

 

Working Clearances

 

NEC® Chapter 2 Topics

 

Introduction to Grounded Conductors and Grounding

 

Whatever Happened to Natural Gray Insulation?

 

Using an Identified Conductor as a Switch Leg

 

Color Coding

 

Multiwire Branch Circuits

 

GFCI and GFPE

 

Service Ground Fault Protection

 

Voltage Drop

 

Branch Circuit Capacity and
Receptacle Versus Circuit Ratings

 

Receptacles above show windows

 

Receptacles above show windows

 

Show Windows

 

The Optional Calculation for New Restaurants

 

Limiting Main Disconnects

 

Rating of Service Switch:
Growth in Electricity Use and Changes in Receptacle Spacing Requirements, Load Calculations, and Safety

 

Taps

 

Protection, Including Overcurrent Protection, of Grounded Conductors, and their Switching–with a Nod to Their Identification

 

System Grounding

 

The Ufer Ground

 

How about Grounding by Bonding to Other Systems, or at Least Bonding The Systems?

 

Lightning Down Conductors and Grounds

 

What Electrical Equipment Needs to Be Grounded/Bonded

 

How Is Grounding/Bonding to Be Accomplished?

 

Separation of Grounded Conductors from
Grounding Conductors

 

Bonding Receptacles to Enclosures

 

NEC® Chapter 3 Topics

 

Impedance and Togetherness (of circuit wires)

 

Conductors in Parallel. Why the 1/0 limit?

 

Adjustments to Ampacity: Neher-McGrath

 

Adjustments to Ampacity: Bundling

 

Higher Ampacities for Dwelling Service Conductors

 

Basic Ampacity

 

Box Fill

 

Enclosures and Enclosure Mounting

 

Armored Cable

 

Limits on Nonmetallic-sheathed Cable

 

Raceways

 

Four Bends

 

Conduit Fill

 

Knob-and-Tube and Open Wiring

 

NEC® Chapter 4 Topics

 

Standardization of Plugs, Receptacles and Circuits

 

The 42-Circuit Limit

 

Lighting and Safety

 

How Old are Basic Lighting Principles?

 

What Complicated the Specifications for Wiring Attached to Lighting Fixtures?

 

NEC® Chapter 5 Topic

 

Theater Dressing Rooms

 

NEC® Chapter 9 Topics

 

Permits, Inspection and Licensing

 

Local Rules

 

Reinspection

 

Other Material

 

A Remembrance of Creighton

 

Notes on the Coauthor

 

Acknowledgments

 

Partly Annotated Bibliography

 

Definitions/Notes on Terminology

 

Filling in the Gaps

 

Annual Scholarship

 

Notes on the Index

 

Index

 

Web Citations