For those of you who use smaller generators (e.g. the Honda EU6500-series) this is a relevant bit of electrical code information. It comes from my tracking for multiple months now on generators for entertainment use as a result of authorship of a series of article on portable generators for FOH magazine:
The NFPA posted the "short" decision on their emergency petition hearing in regards to the new NEC section, NEC 445.20. The petition was to revise the current wording of 445.20 from:
to
Page with the link to the PDF of the decision is below:
2013 Standards Council meetings
The PDF of the decision is attached: [ATTACH]158459[/ATTACH]
I've also attached the TIA 1097 amendment requesting the grandfathering: [ATTACH]158460[/ATTACH]
The important paragraph I've quoted below (italics emphasis mine):
For jurisdictions that are going to rapidly adopt the new 2014 NEC code cycle, this obviously has substantial implications for many of the small generators currently in the field and used in pro audio, as they (NFPA) explicitly rejected the requests for grandfathering, and the upper wording of NEC 445.20, without grandfathering of any kind, will proceed into effect for 2014 NEC.
I'll let everyone know when I see the full decision if it has more details.
