[labnetwork] electricla code ...

[ocola]

Dear All,

I appreciate your wonderful feedback response time and content !

The picture has gotten clearer.  As long as we follow lock out / tag out 
protocol
we can have the lever boxes in the chase or any place outside of visual 
control
of the tool.

Thank you for your time.

Leo

On 9/18/2014 10:15 AM, ocola wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am in need of relatively urgent help.
>
> We need to know what electrical code is used
> in your cleanrooms for connecting tools.
>
> We have a situation here where the electrical
> engineer insists that following NEPA code he
> must consider the tools as "appliances" and
> that the disconnect boxes must be inside the
> bay next to the tool.
> (The boxes with pull down levers).
>
> I have never seen this in any cleanroom I have visited.
> I believe they are all in the chase.
>
> Can you please ask your electrical engineers and
> find out ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Leo
>
>
>
>

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Leonidas E Ocola, PhD
Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory
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Email: ocola at anl.gov
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