[ale] Low voltage work in GA

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 13:45:44 EDT 2012


NOTE: you can also run plenum cable in residential air ducts. Makes
running wires much easier than drill-n-fish.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 31, 2012 1:27 pm, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> My recollection was that plenum rated cable removed the need for conduit.
>>  (That is you need to either use plenum rated or conduit but not both.)
>> I’m not licensed in this stuff myself so I could be wrong.
>
> Plenum cable does remove the need for conduit because of the fireproof
> rating of the plenum insulation.  If you do not use plenum cable then you
> MUST use conduit if the cables are run in an air return space.  If the air
> returns are ducted (like in a house) then you do not necessarily need
> plenum cable.
>
> Note that you MAY still run plenum cable in a conduit.  There is nothing
> wrong with that, per se.  It's just more expensive and not necessary, but
> it is not against code.  So it's not "either-or".
>
> Enjoy!
>
> -derek
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