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Installation Season is Around the Corner STANDARDS Page 26 conductor, the table does not apply. Very timely, as PoE Type 3 just happens to be 0.3A on a conductor and performs well on category 6/6A cabling that has a common conductor size of 23AWG. ANSI/BICSI N1-2019 The first standard ever created was a cooperative effort with NECA. Published in 2001, ANSI/NECA/BICSI 568 for telecom- munications installation has been a fixture in the industry for 17 years. Due to changes in the industry, the BICSI Standards Program and the associations, ANSI/NECA/BICSI 568 is being formally replaced. Enter ANSI/BICSI N1-2019, Installation Practices for Telecommuni- cations and ICT Cabling and Related Cabling Infrastructure. Approved in November 2018, BICSI N1 is the content we have come to know and love, updated with today's installation practices and code requirements. On schedule to be publicly available by March, BICSI N1 anchors the growing series of installation standards, as BICSI N3 is already in development as the replacement of our other co-authored standards with NECA, specific to bonding and grounding installation practices. If a certain Pennsylvanian groundhog is to be believed, spring is imminent. While not fully sure I have ever experienced a proper spring, having lived only in California and Florida, I have heard it called something else—the onset of Construction Season. Having heard it from several Minnesotans who have told me that winter is their only other season, there may be some validity. So in anticipation, "installation" is the topic of the day, with a little something for everyone. NFPA 70-2020, the NEC ® Fresh off the second ballots, the 202 version of the electrical code is taking shape. Last summer the BICSI Codes Subcommittee developed more than 100 comments of refinement and clarification, of which the large majority were agreed to in principle, if not outright accepted. The largest change is that Chapter 8 is reorganized, where reference to existing areas of Article 800 and to a lesser extent for Articles 820, 830 and 840, will need to be reviewed, as the existing Article 800 now lives as Articles 800 and 805. While the content and rules have not changed—50 ft is still 50 ft— items common to all of Chapter 8 remained in Article 800, where those specific to communication that are not within the other Chapter 8 articles have been moved to Article 805. While sounding large, already in development is an "old vs. new location" guide, as BICSI seems to also have a few of these references in our documentation, as well. The other significant change has occurred in Article 725, specifically related to the topic of bundling cable. While there were a number of corrections and fixes, new for 2020 will be an exemption for when a cabling bundle table in Article 725.144 applies. This exemption will be useful in that as long as one is using 24 AWG conductors or larger and is supporting 0.3A or less per (continued on page 27)