I'm doing a little reading in Mr Harry C Box's section on NEC and I've come across a regulation that as I understand it utterly confounds me. I'm pretty sure that it's reader error, so I'm hoping someone can use smaller words and help me understand where I'm going wrong.
As it reads in Harry C. Box's Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Third Edition:
"Any wire smaller than no. 8 AWG connected to a paddle or stage box must have appropriate fuses in the connector."
Now, if 'paddle' refers to a male connector as the glossary in the back says it does, wouldn't that mean that all male stage pin connectors on stage at the end of standard 12/3 SOW cable has to have a fuse in it? I've ripped apart a lot of connectors, and I've never once seen one with a fuse in it. Which means that either as an industry we're all looking the other way (not likely,) or (very likely) I'm misreading and misinterpreting this bit of code.
If anyone could better explain this one to me, I would greatly appreciate it. (Extra points for best use of sock puppets.)
As it reads in Harry C. Box's Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Third Edition:
"Any wire smaller than no. 8 AWG connected to a paddle or stage box must have appropriate fuses in the connector."
Now, if 'paddle' refers to a male connector as the glossary in the back says it does, wouldn't that mean that all male stage pin connectors on stage at the end of standard 12/3 SOW cable has to have a fuse in it? I've ripped apart a lot of connectors, and I've never once seen one with a fuse in it. Which means that either as an industry we're all looking the other way (not likely,) or (very likely) I'm misreading and misinterpreting this bit of code.
If anyone could better explain this one to me, I would greatly appreciate it. (Extra points for best use of sock puppets.)