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Our 2023 National Electrical Code Course is Now Available!

The 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) is here! This article covers NEC history, the update process, and a chapter breakdown! Stay tuned in the months ahead for more updates.

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If I were to tell you the new NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace is available in both digital and hardcopy and includes new requirements for 2021 that are simply the bee’s knees, would you run out and get yourself a copy? Would you phone your friends […]

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No matter how you look at it, licensing exams are hard. This is especially true of electrical licensing exams. During fiscal year 2020, only 28.7% of Texas electrical exam takers passed their exam.

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Licensed electricians will be in high demand! It will take licensed electricians to pull the electrical permits and to install all of the solar PV systems.

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Sizing Equipment Grounding Conductors (EGC) Table 250.122: What’s New in the 2020 NEC?

If you turn to Section 250.122 in your NEC, you find information that has assisted electricians sizing equipment grounding conductors (EGC) for longer than most electricians have even been twisting wire.If you were on the job in 1968, you would have turned to Table 250.95 in your NEC for this information instead of Table 250.122, but the information was essentially the same.In 1968 you also would have found that an ungrounded (hot) branch circuit conductor protected by a 6000-amp overcurrent device required no less than a 1200 kcmil aluminum equipment grounding conductor… assuming you were using an aluminum equipment grounding conductor. That information remained unchanged for 50 years. But as the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end.”

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Service Disconnects: How Many and Where to Put Them. What’s New For 2020?

NEC Section 230.71. Six Switches or Circuit Breakers in One Enclosure
Since the 1937 edition of the NEC, the service disconnecting means used to isolate a building’s premises wiring from the utility provider’s conductors has been allowed to consist of as few as one, but as many as six switches or sets of circuit breakers.

A veteran electrician would tell you that requirement (or permission, depending on your perspective) means six throws of the hand can be used to control all power on the property. Our veteran electrician is correct – if there is one electrical service on the property.

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Bathroom Branch Circuits in the 2020 NEC

Bathroom branch circuit requirements have changed for the 2020 Code cycle. The one 20-amp branch circuit traditionally required by NEC Section 210.11(C)(3) to feed only receptacles in dwelling unit bathroom(s) is now restricted to feeding only countertop receptacles in those same bathroom(s).

The receptacles permitted on this newly defined branch circuit include any countertop receptacles required to be within 3 feet of the bathroom’s sink basin and any other receptacle(s) installed to serve countertops or similar work surfaces in these bathroom(s).

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Kitchen Island, Peninsular-Countertop, and Work Surface Receptacle Requirements

The 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC) has ushered in a brand-new method for determining the number of receptacle outlets required to serve island countertops; peninsular countertops; and work surfaces located in kitchens, pantries, breakfast rooms, dining rooms, and similar areas of a dwelling unit.

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