Mexico codes
#1
03-07-03, 03:23 PM
Mexico codes
Any one familar with Mexico codes out there? I need to find a code reference for distance of data from power or a reference that running in the same raceway one should be shielded. I know the CEC and NEC versions of it but not Mexico. I know it is not the standard question here but I would apprieciate ANY help on this one.
#3
03-09-03, 08:22 PM
I agree but the customer wants justification and I can't find any reference to it. I know they have something that passes for a code. But I have never done a job done there so hard to spec what you have not got a clue on.
#5
03-10-03, 06:47 AM
At the last NEC update class I attended, about 1.5 years ago, the instructor asked if anyone was bilingual in spanish(I'm probably 6 months of hard study shy of fluent). He said that Mexico had adopted NEC as their standard and his company needed instructors for that market. If true, then the NEC requirement should apply.
#6
03-10-03, 06:55 AM
thats what I thought only it seems only certain municipalities adopted a version of the NEC and others did not. Talk about a rock and a hard place
#7
03-10-03, 08:44 AM
From what I understand (from "relocated" electricians from mexico) is that the NEC is the standard, but not the law. Because of the obvious lack of such a standard, it is being fought by a lot of people who do not want to have to spend an arm and a leg rewiring virtually all of Mexico. One of them believes that in Mexico City and a few other cities, they do actually have inspectors, but for the most part it is still.... do whatever works.
#8
03-10-03, 10:33 AM
I have a bud that works in Mexico occasionally and he says you see some amazing things. I know thats not much help but I am sure our standards would be overkill there.
#9
03-10-03, 12:00 PM
I agree ours standards are way over but when the client wants reasoning and there is no reason, makes life tough. I can show them through math the reasoning for doing something but I loose them with it. I can tell them using logic but they want something offical which is a real pain. I sent them the NEC codes on the subject but that doesn't cut it down there as a legitamate reason to do it. I tryed the Norma ofical Mexicana but I don't read Spanish so that didn't help much I was hoping for an electricain for down there that might read the forum but no such luck.
