4 May 2014 4:34 am
I understand the excuses that accompany the evil. I have NO PROBLEM with standards. It's who creates and enforces them that bothers me. When Wall Street gets to create and enforce the standards, Main Street takes it in the ***.skews13 » 03 May 2014 5:21 pm » wrote:
Can't do it CP. Let me put it to you the way the National Electrical Code put's it to me as an electrical contractor. Every electrical device manufactured in the US, as well as most countries requires them to be "Listed". The definition of listed in the NEC reads as follows:
Article 100: Definitions;
"Equipment, materials, or services included in a list by an organization ( UL, NEMA ) that is acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and concerned with evaluation of products and services, that maintains periodic inspection of production of listed equipment or materials or periodic evaluation of services, and whose listing states that the equipment, material, or services either meets appropriate designated standards or has been tested and found suitable for a specified purpose."
In other words anything I install at a customers home or place of business has to meet UL, or NEMA rated specifications to legally be installed and pass an inspection by the local or state electrical inspector ( Authority having jurisdiction ). If I were to install anything that didn't meet that criteria I can be held civilly, and or criminally liable if something goes wrong. Not to mention lose my Master electricians license, and contractors license. If you want to make your own solar panels and install them on your own property, it may be permitted, but if something goes wrong, your home owners or business property insurance won't pay for any damages that arise.
The NEC is part of NFPA 70 which all fire departments and electrical inspectors go by. They don't want anything electrical manufactured that isn't uniformly built the same way. It applies to every electrical device manufactured, receptacles, switches, motors, fixtures, you name it. And you're right, it makes the competition very stiff when estimating and submitting bids for jobs.
Tell me, why does our government require private corporations to SET AND ENFORCE standards for government officials to sign off on? The government is forcing every producer of ANYTHING ELECTRICAL to purchase the product of a private corporation.
The conjobs are against this when it involves poor people getting medicine. Where do they stand when Americans are getting **** out of work in favor of Chinese factories?
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"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?