Re: apologies to the group, and an electrical question

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:50:00 +0100, Christopher Jahn  
<cjahn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Roger T." <rogertra@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:f15638f3edba5a4487711d4b6cbff5e4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> "Duncan Wood"
>>
>>>
>>> Blimey, the idea of anywhere refusing to let you ground to
>>> the building earth over here i s, frankly, amazing.
>>
>> Some time the North American electrical codes can be
>> "amazing".
>>
>> Local electricians tell me that the Canadian code as applied
>> across most of this country, with local ammendments, is safer
>> than the U.S. code.  This is, however hearsay and as I'm not
>> an electrician, I cannot provide examples.
>>
>
> The problem is that there is no such thing as "the U.S. Code."
> Electrical and Building Codes are made at the municipal level,
> and in a few cases, the state level.
>
> It's easy to forget that the US is really a collection of 50
> independent states, each asserting its rights of sovereignity at
> largely trivial levels.
>
>


It might be fairer to compare EU & US electrical regulations. At which  
point I can have bad memories of Italy & Germany. I try not to remember  
Greece.