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PEC 2009 Significant Changes - by Jaime Mendoza PDF
PEC 2009 Significant Changes - by Jaime Mendoza PDF
to the
Philippine Electrical Code
2009 Edition
R. A. 7920
An Act For, A More Responsive and
Comprehensive Regulation For the Practice,
Licensing, and Registration of Electrical
Engineers and Electricians.
Sec. 4 Powers and Duties of the Board
¾ The Board shall exercise executive
/administrative or quasi-legislative (rule-
making) or quasi-judicial (investigative)
powers in carrying out the provisions of
this Act.
Licensing
Definition – a permission granted by competent
authority to engage in a practice of profession or
business or in an activity.
A PEE who designed, signed, and sealed an electrical
plans – means he/she guaranteed the safety of the
electrical plans for 15 years in accordance to Civil
Code.
PEE, REE or RME who signed as in-charge of
installations also guaranteed the safety of the
electrical installations for 15 years.
You can only guaranteed the safety of your electrical
designs/installations if you are well-versed in the
Philippine Electrical Code.
“Licensing guarantees the safety
of your works!!!!”
PURPOSE OF PEC
The primary objective of the code is to
establish basic materials quality and electrical
works standards for the safe use of electricity
for light, heat, power, communications,
signaling and for other purposes.
“Practical safeguarding of persons and
property from hazards arising from the use of
electricity”
COMPLIANCE TO THE PEC WILL ENSURE SAFETY AND
PREVENT ELECTRICAL FIRES
The Philippine
The Philippine
Grid/Distribution
Electrical Code
Codes
Performance Safety
Standards Standards
• Power Quality • Design and Specifications
• Reliability • Installation
• System Loss • Operation & Maintenance
GRID/DISTRIBUTION
DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING CRITERIA
Energy management,
maintenance, and power
quality issues aren’t within
the scope of the PEC.
Consideration should be
given for future expansion
of electrical systems but this
is not a Code requirement.
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Code Arrangement
CLASSIFICATION OF CODE
RULES
1. Wiring Design Rules
2. Installation Rules
3. Manufacturing Rules
Installation rules
Example:
1. A disconnecting means shall be located within
sight from the motor controller. Section
4.30.102
2. In class II Division I Locations, motors,
generators, and other rotating electric
machinery shall be dust ignition proof or totally
enclosed pipe ventilated and shall be approved
for class II locations. Sections 5.02.8
Manufacturing rules
Example:
Section 4.30.1.7
A motor shall be marked with the following
information:
1) Manufacturer’s Name
2) Rated Volts and Full-load Amperes
3) Rated Frequency and Number of Phases, if
an alternating current motor, etc.
4) Rated full-load speed
Various Categories of the Code Rules which apply in a Motor and the Circuits
ELECTRICAL FIRES
If a fault develops, the current (and heat energy)
can increase to the extent that either the appliance
burns out, the connecting wiring overheats and
melts the plastic insulation or the plug and socket
may burn out.
An electrical fire then occur where the overheated
wiring, motor, plug, etc. are in contact with or close
to flammable or combustible material.
combustion
Triangle of Fire
New - Definitions
AHJ – Authority Having Jurisdiction
Bonding Jumper, System
Coordination (Selective)
Electrical Practitioner, Licensed
Electrical Practitioner, Non-Licensed
Guest Rooms
Guest Suite
Handhole Enclosure
Guest Room
Guest Suite
New Provision
PEC 2.10.1.5 (c) Identification for Branch
Circuits, page 69
(c) Ungrounded Conductors
Where the premises wiring system has branch
circuits supplied from more than one nominal
voltage system, each ungrounded conductor of a
branch circuit, where accessible shall be
identified by system. The means of identification
shall be permitted to be by separate color
coding, marking tape, tagging, or other
approved means and shall be permanently
posted at each branch-circuit panelboard or
similar branch-circuit distribution equipment.
New Provision
2.10.1.8(b)(2) –GFCI
Protection Other than
Dwelling
Commercial and
institutional kitchens –
for the purposes of this
section, a kitchen is an
area with a sink and
permanent facilities for
food preparation and
cooking. (Culinary
Schools)
New Provision
2.10.1.8(b)(4) –GFCI
Protection Other than
Dwelling
Outdoor in Public
Spaces – for the
purpose of this section
a public space is
defined as any space
that is for use by, or is
accessible to the
public.
New Provision
2.10.1.8(b)(5) –GFCI
Protection Other than
Dwelling
(5)Outdoor , where
installed to comply with
2.10.3.14 Heating, Air-
conditioning, and
Refrigeration Outlet
New Provision
2.10.1.8(c)Boat Hoists
GFCP for personnel
shall be provided for
outlets that supply
boat hoists installed in
dwelling unit locations
New Provision
2.10.1.12.Arc-Fault
Circuit Interrupter
Protection
(b) Dwelling Unit
Bedrooms – All single
phase, 15 and 20 A
branch circuits supplying
outlets installed in
dwelling unit bedrooms
shall be protected by a
listed AFCI. Combination
type installed to provide
protection of the branch
circuit.
AFCI
New Provision
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Revised - Definition
Dwelling Unit – one or more rooms for
the use of one or more persons as a
housekeeping unit with space for eating,
living, sleeping, and permanent
provisions for cooking and sanitation. PEC
2000
Dwelling Unit – a single unit, providing
complete and independent living facilities
for one or more persons, including
permanent provisions for living, sleeping,
cooking, and sanitation. (PEC 2009)
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Revised - Definition
2.10.1.8(a)(8) GCFI Protection
Laundry, utility, and wet bar sinks –
where the receptacles are installed to
serve the countertop surfaces and are
located within 1.8 m (6 ft) of the outside
edge of the sink.
Laundry, utility, and wet bar sinks –
where the receptacles are installed within
1.8 m (6 ft) of the outside edge of the
sink.
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Revised - Definition
Garage – a building or portion of a building in
which one or more self-propelled vehicles
carrying volatile flammable liquid, for fuel or
power are kept for use, sale, storage, rental,
repair, exhibition, or demonstrating purposes,
and all that portion of a building that is on or
below the floor or floors in which such vehicles
are kept and that is not separated there from by
suitable cutoffs.
Garage – A building or portion of a building in
which one or more self-propelled vehicles can be
kept for use, sale, storage, rental, repair,
exhibition, or demonstration purposes.
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Relocated -Definition
Solidly Grounded – PEC 2000
Grounded, Solidly – PEC 2009
An Example of Conductor
Color Coding
Section 2.0.1.7(c)
Branch Circuits
A. Tamper-Resistant Receptacles in
Dwellings Unit (406.11) (NEC-2008)
Why do you think it is a tamper-
resistant receptacle?
Branch Circuits
A. Tamper-Resistant Receptacles in
Dwellings Unit (406.11) (NEC-2008)
Universal Change
A universal change throughout the 2009
PEC is the replacement of “computed
load” and “demand load” with “calculated
load.” For example, the term demand
load is being replaced with calculated load
to improve clarity and to reduce
confusion, especially when related to
“calculated load” and “demand factor.”
The term calculated load includes demand
factor, the concepts of diversity, and
historical data.
2.50.1.2 Definitions
Ground Fault- An unintentionally, electrically
conducting connection between an ungrounded
conductor of an electrical circuit and the
normally non-current-carrying conductors,
metallic enclosures, metallic raceways, metallic,
or earth.
2.50.1.2 Definitions
Ground-Fault Current
Path- An electrically
conductive path from
the point of ground
fault on a wiring
system through
normally non-
current-carrying
conductors,
equipment, or the
earth to the electrical
supply source.
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Article 2.50
2.50.2.5(b) Main Bonding Jumper
2.50.2.11 Grounding Separately Derived
Alternating-Current Systems
2.50.2.13 Buildings or Structures Supplied by
Feeder(s) or Branch Circuit(s)
2.50.3 Grounding Electrode System and
Grounding Electrode Conductor
2.50.10 Grounding of Systems and Circuits of 1
kV and Over (High Voltage)
3.10.1.6 Shielding
In this section’s exception, the voltage
has been reduced from 8 kV to 2.4 kV for
use of unshielded conductors. Cables
operated at a voltage higher than 2.4 kV
will now be required to be shielded.
Many cable manufacturers specifically
recommend against the use of non-
shielded cable above 2 kV because of
arcing problems and cables without
shielding have a very high failure rate.
3.10.1.8 Locations
d) Locations Exposed to Direct Sunlight. Insulated
conductors and cables used where exposed to
direct rays of the sun shall comply with one of
the following: (be of a type listed for sunlight
resistance or listed and marked “sunlight
resistant”)
1) Cables listed, or listed and marked , as being sunlight
resistant
2) Conductors listed, or listed and marked , as being
sunlight resistant
3) Covered with insulating material, such as tape or
sleeving, that is listed and marked ,as being sunlight
resistant.”
All conductors
in single
12 9
conduit
4 conductors in
3 conduits or
4 3
cables
All conductors
in metal
wireway or 12 9
auxiliary gutter
All conductors
in nonmetallic
wireway or 12 9
auxiliary gutter
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All conductors
in single
12 50 9 70
conduit
4 conductors in Not
3 conduits or
4 80 3 required
cables
All conductors Not Not
in metal
12 required 9 required
wireway or
auxiliary gutter
All conductors
in nonmetallic
wireway or 12 50 9 70
auxiliary gutter
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Section 3.10.1.15(b)(4)
Notes
For metal auxiliary gutters, 3.66.2.14(a)
indicates that derating is not required so long as
the number of current-carrying conductors at
any cross section does not exceed 30. A similar
statement is included for sheet metal wireways
in 3.76.2.13.
Derating for the number of current-carrying
conductors in non-metallic auxiliary gutters and
wireways is required, beginning at four-current
carrying conductors, because conductors in non-
metallic enclosures do not dissipate heat as well
as those in sheet-metal enclosures.
Introduction
Art. 6.95 contains many requirements to
keep that supply of water uninterrupted.
For example:
1. Locating the pump so as to minimize its
exposure to fire.
2. Ensuring that the fire pump and its jockey
pump have a reliable source of power.
3. It makes sense to keep fire pump wiring
independent.
Introduction
Other requirements seem wrong at first
glance, until you remember why the fire
pump is there in the first place.
For example:
1. The disconnect must be lockable in the
closed position.
2. Fire pumps power circuits cannot have
automatic protection against overload.
Introduction
6.95.1.1 Scope
a) Covered
1) Electric power sources and interconnecting
circuits
2) Switching and control equipment dedicated
to fir pump drivers
b) Not Covered
1) The performance, maintenance, and
acceptance testing of the fire pump system,
and the internal wiring of the components
of the system
2) Pressure maintenance (jockey or makeup)
pumps
2) Feeder Sources
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6.95.1.5 Transformers
Dedicated transformer and overcurrent
protection sizing can be broken down into
three requirements.
1. The transformer must be size to at least 125%
of the sum of the loads.
2. The transformer primary overcurrent device
must be at least a specified minimum size.
3. The transformer secondary must not contain any
overcurrent device whatsoever.
6.95.1.5 Transformers
6.80.1.2 Definitions
6.80.1.2 Definitions
10 ft = 3 m
6.80.2.3(b) Luminaires
6.80.5 Fountains
Definitions
Artificially Made of Bodies of Water – Bodies of
water that have been constructed or modified to
fit some decorative or commercial purpose such
as, but not limited to, aeration ponds, fish farm
ponds, storm retention basins, treatment ponds,
irrigation (channel) facilities. Water depths may
vary seasonally or be controlled.
Natural Bodies of Water – Bodies of water such
as lakes, streams, ponds, river, and other
naturally occuring bodies of water, which may
vary in depth throughout the year.
GOOD Morning!