2005 Ferm's Fast Finder
Comprehensive Cross Reference to the 2005 NEC

Published by International Association of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI)

For more than 25 years, Ferm’s Fast Finder has been the leading comprehensive cross-reference index to the NEC. Updated to the 2005 NEC, each entry, reference and source has been carefully crafted and examined for precise detail and ease of use. 

Volume 1 is alphabetized and criss-crossed in great detail, giving many avenues of approach to a subject. New navigational guides are built into each page, both as headers and beside each entry, to facilitate locating information quickly. A new section three contains cross-references to the International Residential Code (IRC). 

Volume 2 contains more than 186 extensive and practical rules of thumb, formulas, illustrations, tables, charts, diagrams, and examples of situations encountered in the field.  Users of the NEC will discover how parallel these codes can run.

Volume 1 Contents:

• Preface vii
• Notice to the Reader viii
• How To Use Ferm’s Fast Finder Index x
• Section 1 Ferm’s Fast Finder Index 11
• Section 2 International Residential Code (IRC) 323
• Cross Reference

Volume 2 Contents:

• Charts, Formulas, and Other Useful Information
• Aluminum Conductor
       Conductor Terminations 61
       Compact Aluminum (Conduit Fill Tables) 68-79
• Ampacity
       Dwelling Services 48
       1-phase Loads on a 3-phase Feeder 21
• Ampere Feet (Formula) 138
• Area in Square Inches of Compact Aluminum Conductors 84-85
• Area in Square Inches of Conductors (Concentric) 80-83
• Area of a Circle (Formula) 43
• Ballast Data, Fluorescent 92
• Branch Circuits (Dwellings) 49
• BTU/HR to Tons or Watts 20
• Busbars, Circular Mill Area of 98
• Capacitance 23
• Capacitor, Selection and Formulas 26-31
• Centigrade and Fahrenheit (Formulas) 19
• Circle, Properties of 43
• Compact Aluminum (Conduit Fill Tables) 68-79
• Conductors
       Ampacity Basics 86-87
       Ampacity, Dwelling Services 48
       Ampacity of 1-phase Loads on a 3-phase Feeder 21
       Area in Square Inches of Compact Aluminum 84-85
       Area in Square Inches of Concentric 80-83
       Concentric and Compact Stranding 88
       Fill in Conduit and Tubing 87-88
       High Ambient Temperature 86
       More Than 3 Current-carrying Conductors 86
       Number of Permitted in Conduit (Compact Aluminum) 68-79
       Number of Permitted in Conduit (1-phase with Reduced Neutral) 53-54
       Number of Permitted in Conduit (with Equipment Ground Wire) 68-79
       Parallel 88-89
       Percent Fill in Conduit and Tubing 87-88
       Temperature Limitation of Terminations 86
• Conduit
       Dwelling Services 53-54
       Fill in Conduit and Tubing 87
       Fill Tables, Compact Aluminum 68-79
       Fill Tables, with Equipment Ground 68-79
• Decimal Equivalents Chart 19
• Dwellings
       Ampacity of Services and Feeders 49
       Appliances, Typical Wattage 52
       Branch Circuits for 49
       Conduit Size, Service 53-54
       Residential Requirements 49-51
• Effective Voltage Value 22
• Electric Heat and Rule of Thumb
       Branch Circuit Sizing Table 47
       Density of Baseboard Heaters 47
       Heating and Cooling (Summary) 20
       Heat Pumps 20
       Voltage Variations Multiplier (Formula) 46
       Voltage Variations Multiplier (Table) 46
       Watts Required for Electric Heat 46
• Equipment Grounding Conductor, Sizing Table 64
       To Compensate for Voltage Drop 65
       Fahrenheit and Centigrade (Formulas) 19
• Fluorescent Ballast Data Chart 92
• Full-load Current, Amperes
       Short Cut (Formulas) 12
       Single-phase Circuits (Chart) 13
       Three-phase Circuits (Chart) 14
       Three-phase Feeder to Single-phase Load (Formula) 21
• Grounding Conductor (Sizing of) 65
       To Compensate for Voltage Drop 65
• Grounding Electrode Conductor (Sizing of) 61
• Hazardous Areas (Defined) 58
• Heating and Cooling (Summary) 20
• Heat Pumps 20
• High Intensity Discharge-lighting Ballast Data Chart 90-91
• High Voltage Leg Formula 35
• Horsepower (Formulas) 25
• Hot Tub or Spa 45
• Hydromassage Bathtubs 45
• Impedance (Formula) 44
• Inductance (Formula) 12
• Kilowatt-hour Consumption Formula 52
• KW or KVA to Amps 12
• Lighting Fixture (Luminaire) Layout 93
• Load Factor 87
• Luminaire (Lighting Fixture) Layout 93
• Mast-type Service Drawings
       Surface and Flush, Short Mast (Drawing IAEI SM-1) 40
       Surface and Flush, Tall Mast (Drawing IAEI SM-2) 41
• Metric System 18
• Mobile Home Hook-up (Drawings)
       Overhead Feeder 38
       Underground Feeder 39
• Motor Control Circuits for Magnetic Starters 94
• Motor Full-load Running Current Table 96
• Motor Hook-up Drawings, 1-phase and 3-phase 95
• Motor Starter Coil Data 97
• Motor Starter, NEMA Sizes 98
• NEMA Enclosure Standards 128-135
• Neutral Load Calculations, 1-phase and 3-phase 35
• Ohm’s Law (Formula) 15
• Parallel Conductors 88-89
• Power Factor Correction Tables 27-31
• Power Factor (Formulas) 24-25
• Power of Ten, Math Formula and Examples 42
• Pump Houses and Wells 55
       Drawings 56-57
• Reactance (Formula) 23
• Reciprocals (Formulas) 15
• Rectifier Losses (Formula) 34
• Residential Requirements 49-51
• Resistance (Formulas) 17
• Schedule 40 PVC Conduit Fill Tables 76-77
• Schedule 80 PVC Conduit Fill Tables 78-79
• Separately Derived Systems 59-60
• Series-parallel Circuits 16-17
• Service
       Mast Drawings 40-41
       Minimum Conduit Sizes 53-54
       Single-family Dwellings 48
• Short-circuit Calculations (Formula) 100-102
• Short-circuit Current Available (Summary) 99
• Short-circuit Current in Amperes at Various Secondary
• Conductor Distances from Transformers 104-127
       120/240-volt, Single-phase Transformer Connections 104-109
       208Y/120-volt, Wye Transformer Connections 109-115
       480Y/277-volt, Wye Transformer Connection 116-121
       120/240-volt Wye, Delta Transformer Connection 122-127
• Short-cut Formula 12
• Sine Wave (Calculations) 22
• Single-phase Loads on a Three-phase Feeder 21
• Sizing Equipment Ground Wire (Table) 64
• To Compensate for Voltage Drop 65
• Sizing Grounding Electrode Conductors
• Multi-enclosures Services 61
• Skin Effect of Alternating Current 16
• Spa or Hot Tub 45
• Speed of Motor to Speed of Belt-driven Fan (Formula) 43
• Swimming Pools (Grounding and Bonding) 44-45
• Therapeutic Pools 45
• Three-phase Feeder to Single-phase Loads 41
• Torquing Connections Information 62-63
• Transformer (Formulas & Calculations) 36-37
• Volt-amp (Formula) (VA Formula) 64
• Voltage Drop (Formula) 136-137
• Voltage Drop Tables (Ampere-feet Method) 140-155
       Example Illustration of Tables 138-139
• Voltage, Effective Value 22
• Voltage Variations (Multiplier Formula) 46
• Voltage Variations (Multiplier Table) 46
• Wattage Ratings of Residential Appliances 52

Soft-cover - Spiral Bound
Vol. 1 - 354 pages
Vol. 2 - 158 pages

ISBN: 1-890659-37-1