gfulton wrote:
"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:28:51 -0700, "Ken Davey"
wrote:



A couple of lifetimes ago when I worked for the Canadian National
Railroad we had a book.
This book was called "the Uniform Code Of Operating Operating Rules
(UCOR). This rule book was a distillate of several centuries of
global railroading experience.
In theory, if all the rules were adhered to nothing could go wrong.
It was (unofficially) understood that if one knew *ALL* the reasons
for any given rule and *ALL* that could go wrong if said rule was
broken one could selectively break it.
Any defect in your reasoning that led to a disaster resulted in (at
the least) brownie points (get enough and it was bye bye job) and
at the worst, jail time.
When I was a greenhorn someone decided to break one of of those
rules to save a couple of seconds.
Rather than seem officious I went along with this.
The result was I almost got six people killed.
It was so close that, to this day, I break out in a sweat just
thinking about it.
And it happened more than thirty years ago!

The moral?
Before you break/bend the rules think long and hard about ALL the
possible consequences.
This is not a 'the towers fell because of an engineering oversight'
kind of thing.
It is a 'the rule was there for a damn good reason' worked out by
your betters.
You might just get away with a non-code installation and you may
just get someone killed, all for the saving of a few miserable
dollars.


Good advice.




I'm trying not to belabor the obvious here, but the "damn good
reason" Mr. Davey espouses is in place for those individuals without
any understanding of electrical power, circuitry, and distribution.
Those who don't know what's hot and what's not. And the people who
write these regulations are certainly not anyone's "betters", they
just understand the dangers to linemen from people without any
understanding of electricity backfeeding the distribution circuits.
I'm not one of them. Once again, a lineman will_never_get zapped
from any current that I backfeed into the circuit. It's not going to
happen. My circuitry will never be operated by anyone but myself or
my sons, who know just exactly the dangers and the correct procedure.
We know what we're doing, and judging from Mr. Foreman's posts, he
does also. Unlike him, I just simply can't stomach safety fascists.
And, yeah, feel free to worry Mr. Davey.

And you feel gree to worry as well.
Best case - you won't be around to see the results of your flaunting of the
regulations.

Ken.