On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Alfred Saginario <asaginar at verizon.net>wrote: > As a full time music teacher and part time piano technician, I've run > into this same problem in my school district. Our situation is even more > extreme - we're not allowed to use extension cords at all! > > When they did our annual fire inspection two years ago, we were told we > couldn't use an extension cord on the end of the Dampp Chaser cord - > apparently due to NY state fire regulations > This sounds completely ridiculous. I know different states have differing regulations. But common sense should prevail here. A DC system connected to an extension cord has next to no chance of danger whatsoever. Do they allow you to connect vacuum cleaners to an extension cord? Whew! > . We also aren't allowed to have any splices in the cable or use anything > other than the type of cord that has the molded plug (no screw terminals or > "squeeze-on" type plugs). > That's a bit more understandable. But, still, a properly fitted, non-molded plug is perfectly safe. That is, after all, the basic setup of the wall outlet: insulated wire connected to a non-molded receptacle . I'm shocked, er, pardon the pun. :-) -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081105/e117a5ff/attachment.html
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