The 2011 Contractor Sales Incentive Program

The Contractor Sales Incentive Program for 2011 was a great success. Congratulations to all who made their sales goals and will be enjoying some fantastic travel rewards. The reward recipients were:

Level 1

Total Electric, Marshfield

Berg Sales, Edgar

Wattworks Electric,Owen

Gold Buckle Electric, Medford

Martin Wiese Electric,Athens

Anderson Electric, Spencer

Level 2
Mike Alexander Electric, Medford

Baehr Electric, Withee

Thanks again for everyone ’ s participation! Look for the winner in the drawing for the
guided hunt in next months newsletter.

NEC Code Questions and Answers…..

Q. Is an over-counter light in a dwelling unit kitchen allowed to be hardwired to the smallappliance circuit?
A. The 20A, 120V small-appliance circuits required by 210.11(C)(1) must not supply outlets for luminaires or appliances [210.52(B)(2)].

Ex 1: The 20A, 120V small-appliance branch circuit can be used to supply a receptacle for an electric clock.

Ex 2: A receptacle can be connected to the small-appliance branch circuit to supply a gas-fired range, oven, or counter-mounted cooking unit.

A range hood or above the range microwave listed as a range hood must be supplied by an individual branch circuit [422.16(B)(4)(5)].ing if this circuit supplies luminaires, receptacles, or both [210.23(A)(2)], as shown in the Figure above.
All questions and answers are based on the 2008 NEC, taken from EC&M (http://ecmweb.com/nec/code_qa/)