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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 10/14/2018 2:10 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 13:46:47 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/14/2018 1:27 PM, wrote:

The transformer does surprise me tho, since I assume it was an off the
rack U/L (or other NRTL) listed piece of equipment, installed per
manufacturer instructions. That should have been the end of the story.
Maybe you just needed an NEC consultant to talk to the inspector ;-)

I don't know what his problem was.

There's a manufacturer's plate attached to the transformer housing
with all the information including power rating and temperature
rise above ambient. All the transformers made by them
are UL listed as well and the plate had that on it.

All he had to do is read it instead of causing a mini-crisis.

Yup, that was exactly what I was saying. Maybe that is why more places
are going to licensing and certification of inspectors. There were too
many old codgers who were making up rules as they went along.
Even in Florida, with a state wide unified building code, there are
still differences between how it gets applied across the state. Before
2002 it was really the wild west out there with 67 counties and 100+
cities making up their own rules. Contractors needed to do different
things, depending on which side of some streets they were on (city or
county rule)
That is why the State ran their own building department, so they did
not have to deal with a couple hundred different building departments.
The guys still had some flexibility in how they would read a state
wide plan (like the radio tower buildings on the interstates) but they
all complied with the NEC, unaltered and the SBCCI
building code suite.

Heh. The town I live in is so small and rural that the building
inspector is shared with two other towns.