- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
The rule has ZERO to do with the required conductor ampacity. It only has to do with the operating current. The code requires a conductor with an ampacity greater than the operating current. The operating current is what the LFMC rule covers, not the fictictous conductor ampacity required by the code.May the 3/0 Cu in the LFMC be operated continuously at 171.4A, or would that violate 350.10(4)?
If the conductor is disallowed from continuously carrying 171.4A, then its ampacity is below 171.4A. Meaning its ampacity is below MCA, a violation.
Cheers, Wayne
We are not going to read this the same way ever, so I am done here. You can read it your way, and I will read and enforce it my way.