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[alimaj]

Hi all I am a new member , lives in Guyana, former British colony. We her are going through a transition in electrical standards, at present we use the IEE regulations but are moving to adopt the NEC, so I am in a transition of sorts, glad to be here to understand the main differences between the two standards.

 

[manda]

Hi and welcome

 

[malcolmsanford]

Hi and welcome .................you'll be sorry adopting the american standards, but good luck with it anyway

 

[CRAGS]

Hi and welcome

 

[Sparky Ninja]

welcome along!

 

[simpson93]

hey welcome to the forum

 

[Sintra]

Hi & welcome. Was out in Guyana about 11 months ago doing a bit of work.

 

[Guest123]

Welcome along.

 

[alimaj]

Hi and welcome .................you'll be sorry adopting the american standards, but good luck with it anyway

Hi from what I have seen we would not be adopting the NEC in its entirety. For one thing we would continue using the TT system of earthing, though they WOULD discard the use of the word EARTH and use GROUND.

 

[jpmiff]

Welcome along

 

[IQ Electrical]

Welcome!

 

[Kamikaze]

Welcome to the institude of electrical confusion.

 

[Phil]

welcome along

 

[High Tower]

Welcome!!

Rule 1, The words AMERICAN, ELECTRICAL and SAFETY all used in the same sentance is what we call a "oxymoron"!!

 

[alimaj]

Welcome!!

Rule 1, The words AMERICAN, ELECTRICAL and SAFETY all used in the same sentance is what we call a "oxymoron"!!

Really! Seriously I have been looking at their systems,and think there is merit in some of the standards they adopt In my view it is their conditions such as LIGHTNING, HIGH RESISTIVITY OF EARTH, AND THE COURTS(lol)ETC, cause them to adopt some of the measures they have. But the NEC reads like a legal document, which an ordinary electrician cannot understand, but then again you will buy the HANDBOOK which explains the NEC, neither of the two is cheap.

 

[High Tower]

Really! Seriously I have been looking at their systems,and think there is merit in some of the standards they adopt In my view it is their conditions such as LIGHTNING, HIGH RESISTIVITY OF EARTH, AND THE COURTS(lol)ETC, cause them to adopt some of the measures they have. But the NEC reads like a legal document, which an ordinary electrician cannot understand, but then again you will buy the HANDBOOK which explains the NEC, neither of the two is cheap.

I have no real experience so i may well be worng but some of what they do is poor (cable nuts, twisting conductors etc etc) and some of it is uneccisary to say the least, BS7671 is a far superior system of work

 

[alimaj]

I have no real experience so i may well be worng but some of what they do is poor (cable nuts, twisting conductors etc etc) and some of it is uneccisary to say the least, BS7671 is a far superior system of work

Hi I too have no experience. I agree that some things seem unnecesarry, but I am trying to understand why they do some of the things they do. I read Mike Holt's forum he seems to be quite a specialist, the forum is very informative. Their EARTHING or should I say GROUNDING seems to have a science of its own, but I keep an open mind.

 

[brucelee]

hi mate welcome