Rough-In

Stop scrolling tables. Get the size. Every free electrical app hands you Table 310.16 and wishes you luck. Rough-In asks what you know — off the nameplate, off the print — and gives you back the sized answer. ELEVEN NEC CALCULATORS AND SEVEN FIELD TOOLS • Motor circuit — horsepower, voltage, phase and motor type in. Out comes the conductor, the branch-circuit device sized for the device type you are actually installing, and the maximum overload setting. It keeps table full-load current and nameplate FLA straight, and tells you which one it used where, because 430.32 is about your motor's plate and nothing else. • Conduit bending — pick your bender. Ideal, Klein, Greenlee, each with the take-up its maker publishes, cited to the document it came from. Stubs, offsets, kicks, rolling offsets and saddles come back as marks measured from the end of the pipe, with the shrink already accounted…