Re: End of Line Resistor - Are they a standard design?

["Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Frank Olson" <Please-use-the-email-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> In Canada, EOL resistors for Fire Alarm applications must be mounted on
>> an
>> approved End-of-Line Plate.  These are usually red or off white with a
>> resistor symbol on them.  They screw to a standard single gang box.  You
>> can't use just "any plate".  It has to have a ULC sticker on it.  Dumb
>> sounding, I know, but that's the way the cookie crumbles...  at least in
>> Canada.  I would think the UK wouldn't be all that different.
>
> And, I suppose there's a grounding terminal on that plate...
> js


The metal ones are automatically grounded.  The plastic ones require you to
glue the grounding wire to them.  ;-))