Shop Practice with Electrical Code:

Requirements for Electrical

Installation Part 1
Jayson Bryan E. Mutuc, REE, RME
BSEE-PUP
MSEE, Major in Power Systems -MIT (candidate)

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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
Article 1.10 sets the stage for how you’ll implement the rest of
the PEC. This article contains a few of the most important and
yet neglected parts of the Code. For example:

• How should conductors be terminated?

• What kinds of warnings, markings, and identification does a
given installation require?
• What’s the right working clearance for a given installation?
• What do the temperature limitations at terminals mean?
• What are the PEC requirements for dealing with flash
protection?

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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.1 Scope
This article covers general requirements for the
examination and approval, installation and use, access to and
spaces about electrical conductors and equipment, enclosures
intended for personnel entry and tunnel installations

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.2 Approval (p.35)
The conductors and
equipment required or
permitted by this code
shall be accepted if only
approved.

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.3 Examination, Identification,
Installation and Use of Equipment (p.35-
36)

(1) Suitability for installation and use in

accordance with the PEC
(2) Mechanical strength and durability
(3) Wire-bending and connection space
(4) Electrical insulation
(5) Heating effects under all conditions of
use
(6) Arcing effects
(7) Classification by type, size, voltage,
current capacity, and specific use
(8) Other factors contributing to the
practical safeguarding of persons using or
in contact with the equipment

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.3(b) Installation
and Use. Listed or Labeled
equipment shall be
installed and used in
accordance with any
instructions included in
the listing and labeling

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
Failure to follow product
listing instructions, such
as the torquing of
terminals and the sizing of
conductors, is a violation
of this Code rule.

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 Electrical
Connections (p.39)

Conductor terminal and

splicing devices must be
identified for the
conductor material and
they must be properly
installed and used

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (A) Terminals
(p.39)

Conductor terminals must

ensure a good connection
without damaging the
conductors and must be
made by pressure
connectors (including set
screw type) or splices to
flexible leads.
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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (A) Terminals

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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (B) Splices

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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (B) Splicing

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 Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (B) Splicing

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (C) Temperature
limitations.
The temperature rating
associated with the
ampacity of a conductor
shall be selected and
coordinated so as not to
exceed the lowest
temperature rating of any
connected termination,
conductor, or device.

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (C) (1)(a)
Equipment provisions (p.40)
Termination provisions of
equipment for circuits rated
100 amperes or less, or
marked for 2.0 mm2 (1.6
mm dia) through 38 mm2
conductor, shall be used
only for one of the
following:
1) Conductors rated 60
degrees celcius

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (C) (1)(a) (3)
Conductors with higher
temperature ratings if the
equipment is listed and
identified for use with
such conductors.

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.14 (C) (1)(b)
Termination provisions of equipment
for circuits rated over 100 amperes,
or marked for condcutors larger than
38mm2 shall be used only for one of
the following:
1. Conductors rated 75OC
2. Conductors with higher
temperature ratings, provided
the ampacity such conductors
does not exceed 75OC ampacity
of the conductor size used, or
up to their ampacity if the
equipment is listed and
identified for use with such
conductors

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.16 Flash Protection
(p.41)
Electrical equipments that are
likely to require examination
adjustment, servicing, or
maintenance while energized
shall be field mark to warn
licensed electrical practitioner
or non licensed electrical
practitioner under supervison
of a licensed electrical
practitioner of potential
electric arc flash hazards.

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Article 1.10 – Requirements for
Electrical Installation
1.10.1.22 Identification of
Disconnecting Means (p.42)
Each disconnecting means
shall be legibly marked to
indicate its purpose unless
located and arranged so the
purpose is evident. The
marking shall be sufficient
durability to withstand the
environment involved.

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