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I got asked a couple of questions last night about a situation that a friend of the family was having in regards to their business and their local electrical inspector who came by as they were finishing up replacing the lights in their new office space. The company builds highly specialised scientific gear ($1-10mil devices), which requires obviously very specialised electrical gear. Evidently the inspector came, and all the standard work they did (lighting - they replaced florescent lighting with led because the ballasts gave off too much electrical noise) and that part was fine. Then the inspector saw the scientific gear and went nuts. Demanded things like replacing AC/DC inverters (<.0001% noise) with "industry standard" ones (~10% noise), wire coils that do EM/gravitational counter measures must be encased in steel conduit (making them completely useless) and fun things like that. And then left when he starting arguing with the dozen or so (accredited) engineers on site without signing off on the work permit (ie: lighting change) - so there's now a lovely impasse happening. Also, the inspector is actually an outsourced agency from the municipality, so every time they (try to) talk to them, they get a bill for like $500. Anyone run into stuff like that and have any advice I can pass on? (The company is based out of Ontario/Canada.) The only thing I could come up with was to get the scientific gear to be "out of scope" to the inspector so he couldn't comment on it. Is it possible that the electrical engineers on site can do sign offs?
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Oct 24, 2017 19:18
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Looks like from an old battery setup that has been replaced - you can see the old floor brackets screw down points, and I think that's a shadow on the wall of the old setup in the first picture. Edit: Yeah, terminals aren't looking great.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:46
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shame on an IGA posted:Make a loving lot of noise with the elected officials about moving to a J with a different AHJ I'm sure that's basically what will happen ("this isn't your jurisdiction so gently caress off") it just caught them by surprise a couple of days ago and is they weren't expecting to have to go down that route and were trying to resolve it amicably.
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Oct 24, 2017 22:57
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