Coffee Hour - Cancelation
We will not be having Coffee Hour this week due to my travel schedule. I am in Texas this week on business. Jeff is holding down the fort while I jet set to Encore Wire/Prysmian offices in McKinney TX.
Sound good chief, we'll be there in the next one.
Have a great trip and see you next week for Coffee hour.
Have a good trip. Can we next week talk about the changes to the emergency disconnect in the 2026
230.85 (Emergency Disconnects) as a standalone section is deleted.
The requirements are consolidated into 230.70(A)(1) for one- and two-family dwellings.
That new language says the service disconnecting means must be installed outdoors (on the building or within sight of it, in a readily accessible location).
The marking provisions that were in 230.85 carry over — the service disconnect will still need to be marked as both:
“EMERGENCY DISCONNECT – SERVICE DISCONNECT”
So yes — moving forward under the 2026 NEC:
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For dwellings, you won’t be able to put the service disconnect inside anymore.
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The outdoor disconnect also serves as the emergency disconnect and has to be labeled accordingly.