Re: Wire prices

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonder if they use plastic wire to ground it.


"Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Grounding a plastic back box?
| Let me see, how did that song go? M_I_C_K_E_Y <> M_O_U_S_E.
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| "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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| > Don wrote:
| >> "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| >> message news:DoThh.502248$5R2.199894@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| >>
| >>>Roland Moore wrote:
| >>>
| >>>>18/7? I have heard of 18/6 for readers and use it often. 18/7? Are you
| >>>>counting the drain?
| >>>
| >>>Yeah.  We have "weird wire" here.  Fire cable comes in "odd"
conductors.
| >>>18/3, 18,5, 18/7, etc.  That's because CAN/ULC-S524 (Installation
| >>>Standard for Fire Alarm Systems) requires every device backbox be
bonded
| >>>to ground. Ask "FireTek".  He's the expert.
| >>
| >>
| >> even the plastic ones? :)
| >
| >
| > CSA plastic boxes have a ground lug.  And yes, you have to bond all back
| > boxes to ground.
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