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The point of fiber for a homeowner isn't speed (most of us wont even touch 1 gig much less 10. The point is electrical isolation in detached structures. Copper Ethernet wasn't designed to go between structures and doesn't have enough electrical isolation to survive the ground potential...

You can just tap 100A wire (#3 Cu or #1 Al) into the two available ports of the blocks (assuming that middle hole will take wire that large if not you'll need to add some L blocks). The caveat is that the services must be in conduit and must go immediately to the panels on entering the...

^this. Ethernet is very resistant to noise. Make sure you terminate the cable properly and you won't have an issue.

Wheeler fat wrench is your friend. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Couldn't care less. All I care about is what the inspector says. Since I work for the utility I generally don't even care about that. [emoji39]

See above. Sorry I posted what I had written and was off looking up the link to edit in. Doing this from a phone makes for some interesting process of putting stuff together.

Cat5e or Cat6 will be either one be fine for the distance. RG11 is probably overkill but it can't hurt. I'll just leave my usual fiber suggestion here but it is up to you. For me the extra $100 that fiber will cost you is worth it for peace of mind plus you will be completely future proof for...

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Here's the way I look at it. We have to remember that 250.130(C)1 only applies to houses built before the 60s. Therefore a small number of houses. We also have to recognize that the choice we have is between installing the outlet ungrounded and installing it with a perfectly adequate (though...

Only in a dwelling unit which this is not and then only depending on how you interpret the phase "similar rooms".

I'm surprised they still have power. Usually it is standard practice to go pull the meters on any structure that has had more than 6" of water in it until it is re inspected. If they do get the meter pulled the city/county is going to require all new outlets and branch circuit conductors for...

I called my mezzanine an "office" on my plans so no GFCI or AFCI requirement. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah the NG units will rack up a bill. I know during Ike a bunch of the guys I was working with figured their overtime checks were going to just about wash with the next month's natural gas bill I probably don't need it but it sure is nice. The storm rages outside, the lights go out, and about...

250.68(C)1 only requires that the bonding jumper for the service be within 5' of the entrance. It does not affect 250.130(C)1 allowing use of the rest or 250.52 defining the rest as part of the GES.

While this would protect from ground faults it won't fix the OPs issue. His issue is the lack of a ground connection for his SPD which won't function properly without one. When the coax is connected he is actually using the coax shield as the ground connection back to where it is bonded near the...

Gonna need a code reference on that one. Just because every electrician "knows" something doesn't make it correct according to the NEC. NEC 250.52(A)(1) Metal Underground Water Pipe. A metal underground water pipe in direct contact with the earth for 3.0 m (10 ft) or more (including any metal...

I guess I'll play the ray of sunshine roll in this thread. I have the shop with a lift on my street. Pretty much all the neighbors know about it and a few have used it from time to time. I don't really get bent out of shape because we have a good neighborhood and they have things I need...

250.52 does not appear to limit the proximity of the water pipe to me. It only requires that it be bonded to any other grouding electrode, that it not rely on the path through the meter (meter jumper in place), and that it be in contact with the earth for 10' somewhere. In my opinion (the code...

I'm pretty sure it was on the house when they bought it. I think the brand was mastercool.

My brother has one on his house in NM. Likes it a lot. Much less energy than refrigerated but not all the humidity of a traditional swamp cooler. One thing to remember with any evaporative unit is not to seal the house up. They depend on moving air through the house to work properly so leave...