Posted by
Bob Naumann W5OV on
Apr 04, 2011; 11:38am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/K3-Why-fuse-the-negative-lead-from-a-battery-tp6233377p6238212.html
Even further, Article 555 "Marinas and Boatyards" specifically addresses
these types of installations.
555.3 Ground-Fault Protection: (paraphrased) is required by either the main
breaker being a GFCI device or each (every) branch circuit can be fed from a
GFCI device.
The NFPA allows reading of the 2011 code online if you register with them
for free - you cannot "copy" and paste the text from it, but you can do a
"print screen" and get an image of the page you're reading which is OK I
guess. That will at least let you print the pages you're interested in.
http://www.nfpa.org/onlinepreview/online_preview_document.asp?id=7011SB#There is also an additional document that can also be read online focused on
Marinas and Boatyards - NFPA 303: FIRE PROTECTION STANDARD FOR MARINAS AND
BOATYARDS
http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=303There is no "search" function, but you can browse the table of contents and
navigate from there in these documents .
73,
Bob W5OV
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>From the Document scope for the 2011 NEC:
90.2 Scope. (A) Covered. This Code covers the installation of electrical
conductors, equipment, and raceways; signaling and communications
conductors, equipment, and raceways; and optical fiber cables and raceways
for the following: (1) Public and private premises, including buildings,
structures, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and floating buildings (2)
Yards, lots, parking lots, carnivals, and industrial substations (3)
Installations of conductors and equipment that connect to the supply of
electricity (4) Installations used by the electric utility, such as office
buildings, warehouses, garages, machine shops, and recreational buildings,
that are not an integral part of a generating plant, substation, or control
center. (B) Not Covered. This Code does not cover the following: (1)
Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating buildings
I suspect that the docks and their associated wiring would be considered a
"floating building" from the NFPA's perspective.
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On 2011-04-04 12:38 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> It's critical to realize that Codes and Standards are written for specific
situations. NEC applies ONLY to premises wiring, and to some
> extent, to wiring connected to premises wiring (like a standby
> generator, or an accessory building, like a garage powered from the same
> service). It does NOT apply to vehicles, or boats, or to the power
> company's wiring outside the premises.
>
> When Standards and Codes are written, very smart and experienced
> engineers cogitate and discuss all the possible implications of the
> requirements of the proposed standard, trying very hard to consider how
> the system would react to any of the myriad of things that might go
> wrong, and with serious attention both to how things are done in the
> real world, and to the laws of physics.For about ten years, I've been a
> part of that process as a member of the AES Standards Committee, and am
> a principal author of all of our published standards on EMC. A typical
> Standard takes 3-5 years to be conceived, written, and adopted. I have a
> great deal of respect for my colleagues, and others who do this, and
> for the resulting standards and codes.
>
> 73, Jim Brown K9YC
Indeed. The "Scope" section of a standard is Very Important Indeed. So
if I am to make disparaging comments about the use of NEC, it behooves
me to purchase my own copy of it. Thank you for making that point.
I, too, have been involved in the standards development process, first
for computer codes and character sets (I was a member of ANSI X3L2, the
same committee that had -- before my participation -- given us ASCII,
the American National Standard Code for Information Interchange. Later
I was a member of a committee under RTCA, developing standards for the
use of GPS in the navigation systems of aircraft.) These people work
hard, and it's a lot of fun meeting people from other companies and
government agencies involved in the developing those standards.
Do you know, Jim, whether the definition of "premises" in the NEC would
include an entire marina? Not the boats kept in the marina, but the
wiring of such structures as floating docks?
73, Jim Maynard K7KK
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