Re: Low voltage wiring - NEC question

["BruceR" <brNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Run it in schedule 80 conduit to protect from stuff being piled up on it
or a shovel dropping. Makes your life easier and the conduit is cheap
and easy to install.

From:Martin
Martin

> Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I meant running the wire along
> the inside wall of the garage. The NEC, from what I picked up from Web
> searches, says you have to use conduit to run the wire through a wall,
> from inside to outside. I'm sure it's safe to run the low voltage wire
> along an inside wall, using fasteners intended for use with wiring,
> but I'm not sure what the NEC says about it...
>
>
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:41:22 -0400, "wkearney99"
> <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> According to what I've been able to find wrt NEC, if the wiring is
>>> run *through* a wall it must be enclosed in conduit. However, if it
>>> is run along a wall, is there any need to enclose it or do anything
>>> special?
>>
>> The upside to using conduit is avoiding interruption.  Animals have
>> the annonying tendency to chew through exposed wiring.  Putting them
>> in conduit helps avoid that.