The point is that everything is a tradeoff. You don't live in a flameproof
suit, do you? Everyone has their own standards of safety, every country
has their own standards of safety, heck, every state has different
electrical codes.
So quoting from the NEC like it's something carved in stone just makes you
sound silly.
I'll stop now.
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Tom Miller wrote:
> I was reading a couple of weeks ago on Towertalk reflector about how
> somebody wanted to run his coax thru an elevator shaft. I mentioned that
> the NEC does not allow that. I was tronced upon at once and reminded that
> it was a south american country and they did not follow the nec. They
> missed the point. I heard about the fire that killed 43 yesterday because
> of faulty wiring. The whole point of NEC is not laws but fire saftey. Had
> the nec been followed there there would have been no fire. Also if the fire
> laws here had been followed there might not have been any deaths.
>
> I been on a lot of construction jobs where the contractor complains about
> Fire Saftey Laws and how much crap they are. The rules are written to
> protect "life and Property" not to give someone a job.
>
> Saftey is a trade off between cost and lives. How much is your life worth,
> your families?
>
> Tom Miller AC5TM
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