[SBE] Certification

[Edwin Bukont]

Whoa.......
 
The National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) is a personnel and property protection standard.  It is written for fire prevention, not communications performance.  The SBE should not be meddling in that.  It is not sufficient for broacast.  In particular the concern about ground resistance.  NEC requires 25 ohms, proper resistance for broadcast is lower.
 
Broadcast needs to address a performance standard.  There are other NFPA docs that do address performance, one in particular.  I should not need to mention them as every broadcast engineer knows what they are and uses them in practice, right?  If you don't know of them, but the electrician does, then you prove the regulators point of the need for licenscing.  Let's put the effort where it would do good.  NEC 70 is not the place.Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT Comm-Struction and Services LLC P.O. Box 629;  Bel Air, MD 21014 USA V- 410.879.5567 F- 240.368.1265 C- 240.417.2475 ebukont at msn.com Member: IEEE, SBE, AES, PMI Digital Media and Power Systems Integrators. A Harris Broadcast Channel Partner > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:38:43 -0500> From: chscherer at everestkc.net> To: sbe at sbe.org> Subject: Re: [SBE] Certification> > ----- Original Message -----> From: Albert Muick <radioresearch_field_operations at yahoo.com>> > Has anyone ever seen any legal challenges to the electrical > > boards' attempts> > to regulate the electrical side of the broadcast industry? I'm just> > wondering if they, nationally, could be coerced to recognize the > > SBE cert either by wooing or legal action. At the heart of most of these > > "boards" is a valid effort to cut down on disasters, but there is a sideline > > of feeding business to the licensed contractors in the state or county; after > > all, the unions were big sponsors of these boards.> > There have been a few municipalities that have stepped up enforcement of the non-electrician performing the work we do. The SBE has been involved in some of them, and has put forth that SBE certification should be considered an acceptable substitute for an electrician's license (or other requirement) for work at the broadcast facilities.> > There was also a suggestion from Bill Sacks to the SBE to attempt to modify the National Electrical Code to provide a blanket approach. This idea was offered later in my term as SBE president, and I do not know where it stands now.> _______________________________________________> SBE mailing list> To unsubscribe, go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/options/sbe> _______________________________________________> SBE at sbe.org> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe