The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) has as its goal to help academia and industry to work together to bring the highest quality and most innovative forms of continuing education to the industry. Its initial focus was the electronics industry, however today it has broadened its scope to include the entire information industry. The IEC’s On-Line education [...]

I attended the “NEC Requirements for Generators” webcast on Thursday (12/6/2007) hosted by CSE magazine and sponsored by Generac.  The presentation gave an overview of applicable codes and standards, explained that generator cabling is defined as a “feeder” and not a “service”, and provided some guidelines for generator sizing and start-up times.  Disconnect and grounding requirements were [...]

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