Re: Wire prices

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never disbelieved you....and I still think it's dee dee dee. The device in
the box is already grounded  by the ground in the romex, to ground a
non-conducting plastic box is wacko....like grounding the wooden stud it's
nailed to would be.


"Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://tnblnx3.tnb.com/emAlbum/albums/Boxes%20and%20Covers/boxes_11_eng.pdf
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| go see that..after come back and give us what you think about it...
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| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message
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| > Wonder if they use plastic wire to ground it.
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| > "Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:45899123$0$7028$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | Grounding a plastic back box?
| > | Let me see, how did that song go? M_I_C_K_E_Y <> M_O_U_S_E.
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| > | "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| > message
| > | news:h15ih.509607$R63.301342@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | > Don wrote:
| > | >> "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| > | >> message news:DoThh.502248$5R2.199894@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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| > | >>>Roland Moore wrote:
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| > | >>>>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? :)
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| > | > CSA plastic boxes have a ground lug.  And yes, you have to bond all
| > back
| > | > boxes to ground.
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