| You guys are Bizarre, too inquisitive & argumentative. | | my rebuttal: | | Even if i agreed with the lot of you on each of your noted points, you'd | still think I have a problem understanding this Post or it's Merits and | Solutions. | | With that in mind, The Hell with It., | | I didn't come here to argue over Picky Ninny Engineering Standards that | don't have apparent reason for excising but to arrange arguments over | everything and anything Electrical that is Manufactured. | Some No-Code Literate people think they do the dandiest things with | plugs and receptacles regardless of the NEC or these arguements. | | It's either the Best Solution or I leave it alone.... Teachers think | different from most of you and I don't care., but you told them what & | how you want it & how you made it., not the other way around, You are | All Confusing and wrong about me somehow. I'd swear right back today | }:-p | | Since my expertise is Technical., you just keep giving us the best | designs possible for the best Installation/assembly possible. | | | And Phil; don't harass me any more over what you think I don't | understand, I am not dumb, didn't I spell it out with positive | assertion?, some of you are damn near insulting and inhospitable like in | here ... | some of you are cool, others perhaps just confused about my assertions. | Roy ~ E.E. Tech
The NEC is not just about what is electrically safe. Many rules are about the _practices_ of electrical power installations with regard to making conditions that can stay safe under errant usage and maintenance conditions. Many of the rules are intended to prevent mistakes. An obvious example is the requirements for certain insulation colors on certain conductor types, such as white/gray for neutral, and green for ground. I'm sure you know as well as I do that electrons and magnetic fields don't give a damn whether the neutral wire is insulated with gray or blue or brown insulating material. But making sure an installation is unstandable when maintained is as much of what these rules are about as anything else. And sometimes it just does not make a lot of sense until you look at things in the context of what happens when someone else comes along to do maintenance or upgrades on the work you originally did. They need to be able to understand enough of it to be sure that mistakes cannot be made (such as connecting a hot wire with white color insulation to the neutral terminal of a new receptacle) unsafe.
I don't always see those rules for what they are myself. So sometimes I have to push people to get an explanation. Sometimes no one really knows why a given "stupid" rule is there. There must be a reason. If after extensive questioning of many people, no reasonable explanation is found, submit a proposed change (to undo that rule) to the appropriate NEC committee and see what their rsponse is. They might include a reason for not changing it. Or they might change it.
But your instance that 15 amp receptacles are not permitted on 20 amp circuits despite a clear and obvious NEC rule that allows it, is not earning you any credibility here.