Maximum Height restrictions by Code for Wireless Relay/Switch?

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I would like to install one of these in a parking lot flood light to allow smarter control.  Our electrician is concerned that a wireless relay is a "Switch" and can't be higher than 6' 7".  Is it ok to install a wireless smart switch above "accessible" height in the US 2020 Code? 

[Heinz]

@Doug Roberson do you know more about this i'm not too sure what the US 2020 Code would entail

[wooly]

I think the code require a maximun height for a switch to be accessible. The maximum height so is not where the sehhelly device is put, byt where the control button is. actually if you control by a remote via wifi it is where the remote is, for sure at an accessible height.

 

[Heinz]

makes sense i looked up "US 2020 code" and found to many things that it could be related to so would need more information regarding that code, as I have no idea what the standards would be for the USA

[Doug Roberson]

@Heinz @Gavin Greenwalt

I actually had to cover this with a municipal maintenance office in a city in Georgia (which has adopted 2020 NEC as of 2021).

In this case, a relay is not a switch, which is considered a toggle or push button intended for manipulation by people. If you wire a switch input to the relay, it MUST be installed at a height accessible by a person. The relay can be installed higher, as needed.

[Heinz]

awesome thanks for the clarification  @Doug Roberson