Hallway.. 3way switchs

[peter d]

Does it actually specify luminaire locations or does it tell you minimum foot candles of illumination that need to be provided at specific places?

Last time I saw the rules, it specified location only.

 

[GoldDigger]

Last time I saw the rules, it specified location only.

AFAIK there are foot-candle rules for commercial/industrial only.

 

[goldstar]

Read what the code section says and you will see it is true.

I never doubted that it was true. I just found it odd.

Here is what I believe, I believe the location is unspecified because trying to describe the location specifically will always fail due to the wide range of rooms, layouts etc that the NEC applies too.

Oddly enough, I'm starting to understand this and the reason why.

The other thing is simply this, customer satisfaction. How long do you figure an EC would keep getting work if they never used three and four ways? Or they located the wall switches for every room on a wall in the basement beside the panel?

I guess that's why I was questioning this all along. I'm sure we all try to go out there and do the best jobs we possibly can without gold plating anything at our own expense. And, you're right, we all probably wouldn't get any future jobs if we did the bare minimum required by the NEC (at least in this instance).